John Greenwood Ph.D

John Greenwood Ph.D General Information

Biography

Dr. John Greenwood served as Chief Economist at Invesco Perpetual. He has responsibility for providing economic analysis and forecasts to Invesco portfolio managers and clients. John started his career in 1970 as a visiting research fellow at the Bank of Japan. He joined our company four years later in 1974 as Chief Economist, based initially in Hong Kong and later in San Francisco. As editor of Asian Monetary Monitor in 1983, he proposed a currency board scheme for stabilising the Hong Kong dollar. John was a director of the Hong Kong Futures Exchange Clearing Corporation for four years until 1991, and in 1992 became a council member of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, a position he held for twelve months. In that same year, he was an economic adviser to the Hong Kong Government. He has been a member of the Committee on Currency Board Operations of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority since 1998. He is also a member of the Shadow Monetary Policy Committee in England, and he serves on the board of the Hong Kong Association in London. John holds an MA from the University of Edinburgh, and an Honorary PhD, also from the University of Edinburgh.