BSc in Economics. Former central banker, Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Bank Negara Malaysia. Former financial regulator in Asia and commentator on global finance. Former Chairman, Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong. 1989-93, with the World Bank. 203-05, Chair, Technical Committee, International Organisation of Securities Commissions. President, Fung Global Institute, responsible for operations and driving research agenda and though leadership. Chief Adviser, China Banking Regulatory Commission; Board Member, Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority, Kazanah Nasional Berhad and Sime Darby Berhad, Malaysia. Member, International Advisory Council, China Investment Corporation, China Development Bank; Member, Advisory Council on Shanghai and International Council, Freie University, Berlin. Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University and University of Malaysia. Pro-chancellor, Universiti Tun Abdul Razak. Author of publications on monetary, economic and financial issues, including From Asian to global financial crisis: an Asian regulator's view of unfettered finance in the 1990s and 2000s.
American multinationals may like the idea of forcing China to alter the policies and practices – from subsidies for state-owned enterprises to the requirement that foreign firms share pro...
The world has a demand problem, and it is dealing with it all wrong. Rather than allowing itself to be harmed by other countries’ problematic policies, China must work to create its own d...
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Over the past four decades, China has gone from being a low-wage supplier to one of the three most important links in the global value chain, alongside the United States and Germany. Desp...
Donald Trump’s rise to power in the United States involved more than a little China-bashing. Yet, with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Trump’s Florida estate earlier this month, i...
Residential property prices in China’s first-tier cities – Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen – are back up. A home there now runs buyers half as much as a home in the world’s mos...
For more than three decades, Asia has experienced faster economic growth than any other region. As it has developed, Asia has been exporting its savings, through a trade surplus with the ...
At the recently concluded World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Chinese President Xi Jinping mounted a robust defense of globalization, reaffirming his country’s “ope...
It is difficult to know exactly what US President-elect Donald Trump will do when he takes office in January. But he is all but guaranteed to pursue tax cuts and increased infrastructure ...
China’s transformation from a manufacturing-driven and export-led economy to one underpinned by services and domestic consumption is firmly underway. And that’s good news not just for Chi...
A spate of recent commentary has been warning of the vertiginous rise in China’s debt, which jumped from 148% of GDP in 2007 to 249% at the end of the third quarter of 2015. Many are anxi...
In March, meetings of the G-20, the Chinese National People’s Congress, and multiple think tanks all reflected a growing awareness of the risks to the global economy posed by deflation an...
