Prior to his appointment as Adviser to the Chief Representative of the BIS Office for Asia and the Pacific in 2024, Yi Huang was a Professor of Finance at Fudan University (on leave), the Pictet Chair in Finance and Development, an Associate Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute and an economist in the Research Department of the IMF. His work has been published in leading journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Finance, the Review of Economics and Statistics and Management Science. Yi has also been a research fellow affiliated with the BIS, CEPR, ABFER and IZA. Additionally, he served as co-director of the CUHK–Fudan Research Center for International Finance, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial Markets and a member of the Council on Global Economic Imbalances at the World Economic Forum. Yi holds a PhD in economics from London Business School.