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Managing Director and Co-head of China Investment Banking, Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C.
Mr. Hu is a managing director at Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C., responsible for the firm’s China strategy and investment banking operations. Before joining Goldman Sachs as chief economist for China in 1997, Mr. Hu was a staff member at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington D.C., where he was engaged in macroeconomic research and policy consultations for a number of member country governments including China.
Since 1996 Mr. Hu has served as co-director and a senior fellow (non-resident)
of the National Center for Economic Research (NCER) at Tsinghua University
in Beijing, where he continues to teach a graduate course in international
finance. Mr. Hu has advised the Chinese government on financial reform,
pension reform, and macroeconomic policies. He also sits on the advisory
board for China Huarong Asset Management Company and the South China
Morning Post.
Mr. Hu has published extensively on China, Asia-Pacific economies, and
financial markets. His latest book (co-authored with Jonathan Anderson),
The Five Great Myths about China and the World, has been translated
into and published in Chinese by a Mainland China publishing house.
Mr. Hu is a member of the editorial board for several academic journals
including International Economic Review, and is a columnist for Caijin,
China's leading financial and business magazine. Mr. Hu holds an MS
in engineering science from Tsinghua University, as well as an MA and
a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.