Pan Gongsheng (; born July 8, 1963) is a Chinese

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this field there are ...

who is the current

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and

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of the

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(PBC) and the Director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange. At the PBC, he has worked on the

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of China.

Education

Pan received his Ph.D. in economics from

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. He did his post-doctoral research at

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and was a research fellow at

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.http://www.pbc.gov.cn/english/130715/130839/index.html

Career

Commercial Banking

Pan was Vice President of Agricultural Bank of China from 2008-2010. Prior to Agricultural Bank Pan worked at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in a number of positions.

People's Bank of China

In 2012, Pan joined the People's Bank of China as Deputy Governor, and later assumed leadership of State Administration of Foreign Exchange, as its administrator. Pan leads Leading Group of Internet Financial Risks Remediation, which has been tasked with clamping down on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in China. He is also a member of the Academic Committee of the

China Finance 40 Forum The China Finance 40 Forum or CF40 is a Chinese think tank created in 2008 which specializes on issues of economic and financial policy. In January 2021, the University of Pennsylvania's Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program ranked CF40 as #8 to ...

(CF40). In July 2023, he was appointed as the secretary of the People's Bank of China Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, succeeding Guo Shuqing. In 2023, Pan was appointed as the Governor of the

People’s Bank of China The People's Bank of China (officially PBC or informally PBOC; ) is the central bank of the People's Republic of China, responsible for carrying out monetary policy and regulation of financial institutions in mainland China, as determined by ...

References

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