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Stephen Roach

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    Morgan Stanley Asia

    Full Biography

    Stephen Roach has been a thought leader on Wall Street for over 30 years. Currently, the Hong Kong based Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, for the bulk of his career he served as the firm’s chief economist, heading up a highly regarded team of economists around the world. His recent research on globalization, the emergence of China and India, and the capital market implications of global imbalances has appeared widely in the international media and in testimony before the U.S. Congress. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1982, he worked in senior capacities at Morgan Guaranty Trust Company and the Federal Reserve Board in Washington D.C. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from New York University and was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a jetlagged resident of multiple time zones, splitting his time between eight Asian countries and his family home in Connecticut.