Analytics for Policy Makers and Investors

Marlene Amstad specialized in the development of economic indicators for policy makers and investors. As Professor of Practice in Economics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen she conducts research on inflation, credit and business cycles. A native Swiss, she serves as a Member of the Board of Directors at the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) in Bern, Switzerland. She is currently a research fellow at the Bank of Japan.

Previously, Marlene worked with 11 leading Asian central banks at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Hong Kong and acted as Deputy Director and Head of Investment Strategy and Financial Market Analysis at the Swiss National Bank (SNB) in Zuerich. At the Federal Reserve Bank of New York she developed the “Fed New York staff underlying inflation gauge (UIG)”. Later, she introduced a similar gauge for China in joint work with People’s Bank of China. She built quantitative credit risk models at Credit Suisse and developed business cycle indicators at KOF-Swiss Economic Institute.