Dr Yuwa-Hedrick Wong

Chief Economic Commentator, Forbes Asia and Visiting Fellow, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Author

Dr Yuwa Hedrick-Wong is the Chief Economics Commentator at Forbes Asia, and a Visiting Scholar at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He was formerly the Global Chief Economist and Chair of the Academic Advisory Council at Mastercard from 2009 to 2018. From 2010 to 2014, he was also the HSBC Visiting Professor of International Business at the University of British Columbia, Canada; Adjunct Professor at the School of Management, Fudan University, Shanghai, China from 2006 to 2011, and Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Singapore from 2003 to 2004.

Yuwa has advised Chief Executives and Boards of over 100 leading international businesses, has authored four books on demographics, and delivered keynote addresses at various prestigious business conferences around the world. He has spent 25 years working in Europe, sub-Sahara Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and Asia-Pacific before returning to Canada in 2011. He studied at Trent University, and pursued post-graduate studies at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University in Canada, where he received his Ph.D.