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Marlene Amstad is Chair of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA, honorary professor of the University of Bern and senior fellow at Harvard university. Her research focuses on international finance and quantitative economics. She co-edited and authored the books “The Handbook of China’s Financial System” (Princeton University Press, 2020) and “CBDC and Fintech in Asia” (Asian Development Bank, 2019). For almost a decade she lived in Asia where she coordinated at BIS in Hong Kong the Asian Bond Fund (ABF) initiative and served as advisor to over 10 Asian central banks, was economics and finance professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-SZ) and Co-Director of the FinTech Center at the Shenzhen Finance Institute (SFI). .
Marlene is the former Deputy Director and Head of Investment Strategy and Financial Market Analysis at the Swiss National Bank. Working at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York she developed their Fed NY underlying inflation gauge (UIG), with almost 20 years its longest running core inflation measure which was published monthly. Previous posts include quantitative research at Credit Suisse and Swiss Economic Institute/ETH Zurich. Marlene regularly holds visiting positions with central banks, most recently at Bank of Japan. She received her PhD in econometrics from University of St. Gallen and her master degree from the University of Bern.
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