Dr Gerard Lyons
Chief Economic Strategist, Netwealth
About Speaker
Dr Gerard Lyons is a leading international economist based in the UK, with over thirty years of experience in high profile roles in both the City and public policy.
He has been visiting Asia since 1989 when, after being Chief U.K. economist at Swiss Bank Corporation, he joined the Japanese bank Dai-Ichi-Kangyo – then the world’s largest bank – as Chief Economist at DKB International, where he established its global economic coverage. While there, he predicted Japan’s Lost Decade and had a regular column in the Nikkei Weekly.
Then between 1999-2012 he was at Standard Chartered as its Head of Global Research, Chief Economist and Advisor to the Board. In 2010-2011, Bloomberg ranked his team as the most accurate economic forecasters globally. But before this Gerard furthered his own reputation when in 2008, a month before Lehman Brothers collapsed, he predicted a deep imminent recession. Standard Chartered emerged from the financial crisis as the second most capitalised bank in the world. During this time, among other things, he was an inaugural member of the EU Commission’s informal network of China Experts, sat on various Committees of the World Economic Forum and in 2005 he spoke in Beijing’s Great Hall of People at the EU-China Summit.
Gerard is currently Chief Economic Strategist at the wealth manager Netwealth, which he helped establish in 2016. He also sits on the Board of Bank of China (U.K.) and of BGC – the global inter-dealer brokers. He is on the committee of the Hong Kong Association and since its inception has sat on the Advisory Board of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the LSE and Imperial.