Anthony Chan (economist)
Anthony Chan | |
|---|---|
| Born | circa 1957 |
| Occupation | Economist |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Known for | Managing Director and Chief Economist at JPMorgan Chase & Co. (1994–2019) |
Anthony Chan (born circa 1957) held the position of managing director and Chief Economist at JPMorgan Chase & Co. from 1994 until 2019, based in New York City. He is a frequent guest on networks such as Fox Business, News Nation, CNN, CGTN, and China Television. In 2020, Chan established Chan Economics and began publishing a weekly economic newsletter titled People Economics.
Education
Chan completed his Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance & Investments at Baruch College in 1979. He then obtained a Master’s degree in Economics in 1983, followed by a Ph.D. in Economics in 1986, both from the University of Maryland.
Career
Between 1985 and 1986, Chan served as a Doctoral fellow at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve located in Washington, DC. Subsequently, he was an economics instructor at the University of Dayton from 1986 to 1989, during which time he published numerous works. Chan then worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1989 to 1991 before moving to Barclays de Zoete Wedd Government Securities as Senior Economist from 1991 to 1994.
Chan joined JPMorgan in 1994 and retired in 2019, after which he founded Chan Economics, LLC in 2020. Throughout his career, he served over 100,000 clients annually and gave presentations to central banks worldwide, including China’s PBOC, the Bank of Korea, and most central banks across Latin America. He travels extensively across Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States to speak on global economic trends and financial markets. Chan is part of the Blue-Chip Monthly Forecasting panel and was a member of the Economic Advisory Committee for the American Bankers Association from 2001 to 2002, providing biannual briefings to Alan Greenspan and board members.
With a quarter-century leading JPMorgan’s global economic analysis team, Chan became a prominent authority in economic forecasting and client consultation.