Andrew Sheng is Distinguished Fellow of the Asia Global Institute, University of Hong Kong. He is Chief Adviser to the China Banking Regulatory Commission; a Board Member of Khazanah Nasional Berhad (the sovereign wealth fund of the Government of Malaysia); and a member of the international advisory councils of China Investment Corporation (CIC), China Development Bank, the China Securities Regulatory Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Board of India. He is also an adviser to the UN Environment Programme’s Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System. He holds the post of Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing and the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.

Previously, Andrew Sheng served as President of the Fung Global Institute, Hong Kong, as Chairman of the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong, and as a central banker with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Bank Negara Malaysia (the Central Bank of Malaysia). He has also worked at the World Bank and chaired the Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). In 2009, he became Pro-Chancellor of Universiti Tun Abdul Razak in Malaysia. A chartered accountant by training, he has a BSc in Economics and an honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol and the University of Malaya.

Andrew Sheng’s areas of expertise include international finance and monetary economics, financial regulation and global governance. He is a columnist for Project Syndicate, Asia News Network and leading economic journals and newspapers in China and Asia at large. He is the author of From Asian to Global Financial Crisis: An Asian Regulator’s View of Unfettered Finance in the 1990s and 2000s. He co-edited the book, Bringing Shadow Banking into the Light: Opportunity for Financial Reform in China, with Ng Chow Soon.