Speaker
XIAO Geng
Affliation
Peking University HSBC Business School
Title
Professor
Session

Biography

XIAO Geng is a Professor at Peking University HSBC Business School (PHBS) and Director of the Research Institute of Maritime Silk Road (RIMS) at Peking University. He is also a founding Fellow and Chairman of the Hong Kong Institution for International Finance (HKIIF); a Member of Expert Groups for Shenzhen Special Economic Zone’s Comprehensive Reform and Zhuhai’s Hengqin Free Trade Zone Pilot; Member of the Academic Committee of International Monetary Institute (IMI) at the Renmin University of China.
Xiao received a B.S. in System Sciences and Management Sciences from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and an MA and PhD in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Professor Xiao’s research and practice have focused on China’s economic reform and opening, covering macroeconomics, exchange rate, finance, enterprise reform, productivity, urban development, and U.S.-China relations. He has contributed to a monthly column at Project Syndicate since 2012 (https://www.project-syndicate.org/columnist/xiao-geng).
Over the last few decades, Professor Xiao has held positions in key academic, policy, regulatory, and business institutions, including Professor at the University of Hong Kong; Vice President of Fung Global Institute; Director of Columbia University Global Center in Beijing; founding Director of Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy; Senior Fellow of Brookings Institution; Head of Research and Advisor to Chairman at Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong; Vice President of Chinese Economists Society (USA); Faculty Associate at Harvard Institute for International Development; Consultant for World Bank and UNDP; and independent directors for many domestic and international corporations.