John Zhu

Chief Economist Asia Pacific, Swiss Re Institute

John joined the Swiss Re Institute as Chief Economist Asia Pacific in December 2021. He was previously a central banker with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, which included a secondment as a Visiting Economist at the Bank for International Settlements. He has worked on both the buy-side and sell-side in London and Hong Kong with HSBC, Legal & General and Pimco. John read economics at the University of Cambridge and completed a Masters at the London School of Economics in 2007, after which he worked as a financial journalist during the Global Financial Crisis.