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Professor Xiao now works as Director of Research in Fung Global Institute, where he directs, oversees and coordinates the institutes’ research projects. He also undertakes and leads research projects as a Senior Fellow.

He is also a Special Advisor for Strategic Development for the Columbia Global Centers | East Asia, an Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong, and an Independent Director of the HSBC Bank (China) and the London-based Genesis Emerging Markets Fund. Previously Professor Xiao held positions in a number of institutions, including Director of the Columbia Global Centers | East Asia, founding Director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, tenured professor of economics at the University of Hong Kong, 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 US, member of the board of supervisors at the Shenzhen Development Bank, Faculty Associate at Harvard University, and Consultant at the World Bank.

Professor Xiao has a BSc in Management Sciences from the University of Science and Technology of China. He obtained his MA and PhD in Economics from University of California at Los Angeles. Professor Xiao has done extensive empirical and policy research on the Chinese economy, especially in areas of macroeconomics, exchange rate, finance, productivity, enterprise and institutional economics. He contributes frequently to public policy debates in domestic and international media and conferences.

• For selected publications, please refer to Xiao Geng's web page at:
  www.sef.hku.hk/~xiaogeng
  .