SENIOR ECONOMIST

Dr. Yiu Siu-Fung Matthew is Senior Economist of AMRO, responsible to lead a group of economists to undertake the macroeconomic and financial surveillance on members’ economies in the ASEAN + 3 Region.

Prior to his appointment in AMRO, Dr. Yiu was Senior Manager of the Research Department of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), responsible for research on financial economics and policies related to financial and monetary stability. In the mid-1990s, he was seconded from the HKMA to work as Assistant to the UK Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC for two years.

Dr. Yiu earned his doctoral degree from Lancaster University, UK. Since 2006, he has been appointed as honorary associate professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science of the Hong Kong University. He is also an Affiliate Researcher of the Centre for Financial Econometrics of the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics at the Singapore Management University. His recent research papers have appeared in the Pacific Economic Review, International Journal of Finance and Economics, Applied Financial Economics, and Journal of Japanese and International Economies.