Prof. Marlene Amstad

Chair of FINMA (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority), Honorary Professor at the University of Bern, Senior Fellow at Harvard and a board member of IOSCO. Previously, she was Professor of Practice in Economics and Finance at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and acting as Co-Director of its FinTech Center. She co-edited the books “CBDC and Fintech in Asia” and “Handbook of Chinese Financial System”. At the BIS in Hong Kong she served as advisor to 11 leading Asian central banks and coordinated its Asian Bond Fund initiative (ABF). Marlene is a 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 monthly published Fed NY underlying inflation gauge (UIG). Previous posts include quantitative research at Credit Suisse and Swiss Economic Institute/ETH Zurich. Marlene regularly holds visiting positions with central banks, the latest at the Bank of Japan. She received her master in economics from the University of Bern and her PhD in econometrics from University of St. Gallen.