Virtual talk at Princeton University on Mar, 25, 2022
Speaker: Andrew Sheng, Asia Global Institute, Hong Kong University

How can emerging market economies mobilize to design a collective solution to a collective problem? Join us for a talk with Andrew Sheng, a former central banker and financial regulator in Asia and a commentator on global finance. Mr. Sheng is a Distinguished Fellow of the Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong. Andrew is the Chief Adviser to the China Banking Regulatory Commission, a Board Member of Khazanah Nasional Berhad, the sovereign wealth fund of Malaysia, a member of the international advisory council of the China Investment Corporation, the China Development Bank, China Securities Regulatory Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Board of India. He is also an advisor to the United Nations Environment Program Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System. Andrew served as Chairman of the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong from 1998 to 2005, having previously been a central banker with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Bank Negara Malaysia. He also worked with the World Bank from 1989 to 1993. From 2003 to 2005, he chaired the Technical Committee of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).

He has published widely on monetary, economic, and financial issues. His 2009 book entitled, "From Asian to global financial crisis: an Asian regulator’s view of unfettered finance in the 1990s and 2000s," was published by Cambridge University Press. His forthcoming book is "Shadow Banking in China: An Opportunity for Financial Reform,(link is external)" with Ng Chow Soon (John Wiley). He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, and the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. In 2009, he became the Pro-Chancellor of Universiti Tun Abdul Razak. He writes regularly on international finance and monetary economics, financial regulation, and global governance for Project Syndicate, AsiaNewsNet, and leading economic magazines and newspapers in China and Asia. A chartered accountant by training, he has a BSc in Economics and Honorary Doctorates from the University of Bristol and the University of Malaya. In April 2013, Andrew was named by Time magazine as one of the '100 most influential people' in the world. He also appeared in the Oscar-winning film “Inside Job” in 2011.

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