Geng
XIAO is Professor of Practice in Finance and Public Policy at School of
Business and Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Hong Kong.
Geng is also a
Member of the Academic Committee of the International Finance
Forum (IFF) and an Independent and Non-Executive Director of the Board
of HSBC Bank (China).
Previously Xiao Geng held a number of positions in academic and policy
institutions, including Senior Fellow and Vice President for China of
the Fung Global Institute, Director of the Columbia Global Centers |
East Asia, Founding Director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public
Policy and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, honorary and
tenured professor at School of Economics of HKU, Head of Research and
Advisor to the Chairman at the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong
Kong, Vice President of the Chinese Economists Society in the U.S., an
Independent Director of the London-based Genesis Emerging Markets Fund,
a member of the board of supervisors at the Shenzhen Development Bank, a
Faculty Associate at Harvard Institute for International Development,
and a Consultant at the World Bank.
Xiao
Geng has done extensive empirical and policy research on the Chinese
economy, covering macroeconomics, exchange rate, finance, SOE reforms,
productivity, urbanization, US-China relations, and institutional
economics. He holds B.S. in Management Sciences from the University of
Science and Technology of China and MA and PhD in Economics from UCLA.