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Marlene Amstad is Professor of Practice in Economics and Finance at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Co-Director of the Fintech Center at the Shenzhen Finance Institute (SFI). She serves as Vice Chair and is Chair-elect (per 2021) of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) and a senior fellow at Harvard University, M-RCBG Center with Ken Rogoff as her faculty sponsor. She regularly holds research fellowships at central banks, most recently with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Bank of Japan, Bank of Finland and BIS. She advised the 11 largest Asian central banks in asset management and coordinated their Asian Bond Fund (ABF) initiative working at Bank for International Settlement (BIS) based in Hong Kong. Previously, she was Deputy Director, Head of the Investment Strategy and Financial Market Analysis at the Swiss National Bank.
Marlene’s primary research interests include international finance and monetary economics. She is an expert in developing new economic indicators based on big data for policy makers and investors. At the Federal Reserve Bank of New York she created the “Fed New York staff underlying inflation gauge (UIG)” which is published monthly and regularly covered by major media outlets. Working at Credit Suisse, she built a quantitative credit rating system for corporate clients and at KOF Swiss Economic Institute a recession indicator based on company surveys. Her research is published in refereed and policy-oriented journals such as Journal of International Money and Finance, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Economic Policy Review and BIS Quarterly Review. She is Co-editor and author of "The Handbook of China's Financial System"(Princeton Press) and "CBDC and Fintech in Asia"(ADB Press). She teaches “Financial Markets in China and the World” and “Economics of Money and Financial Institutions – from the classic textbook to FinTech”, and “Financial Institutions and Regulations” at the University of Bern and in the “MBA in Finance” at Tsinghua University. Marlene holds a doctorate in econometrics from the University of St. Gallen, an MA in economics from the University of Bern, and pursued her management education at INSEAD and IMD.
