Keyu Jin | |
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金刻羽 | |
 Jin in 2025 atMWC | |
| Born | (1982-11-13)November 13, 1982 (age 43) Beijing, China |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (BA,PhD) |
| Father | Jin Liqun |
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| Thesis | Essays on international trade and macroeconomic dynamics (2009) |
| Doctoral advisor | Kenneth Rogoff |
| Website | keyujin.com HKUST faculty page |
Keyu Jin (Chinese:金刻羽;pinyin:Jīn Kèyǔ; born 13 November 1982) is a Chineseeconomist. She has been a professor of finance at theHong Kong University of Science and Technology since 2025.
Jin graduated fromHarvard University with a bachelor's degree in 2004 and a PhD degree in 2009, both in economics.[1] At theLondon School of Economics, she served as Lecturer in Economics from 2009 to 2017[2] and as Associate Professor from 2017 to 2024.[3]
Jin was born inBeijing, China. Her father,Jin Liqun, is an economist and politician who previously served as the vice minister of finance of China and is the founding president of theAsian Infrastructure Investment Bank.[4]: 136 [5]
Jin completed her junior high education at theHigh School Affiliated to Renmin University of China in Beijing and her senior high education atHorace Mann School in New York City.[6] She received aBachelor of Arts degree in economics in 2004 and aDoctor of Philosophy degree in economics in 2009, both fromHarvard University.[7] Her doctoral dissertation, advised byKenneth Rogoff, was titledEssays on international trade and macroeconomic dynamics (2009).[8]
Jin is a specialist inmacroeconomic and financial policy issues.[4]: 136 Her research focuses on global imbalances and global asset prices, drivers of China's growth model, the impact of the one-child policy, and the Chinese saving puzzle.[9]
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After receiving her PhD degree, Jin joined the Department of Economics at theLondon School of Economics as a faculty member in 2009.[10][11] She served as Lecturer in Economics from 2009 to 2017[2] and as Associate Professor of Economics from 2017 to 2024.[10][11][3]
In 2025, Jin joined theHong Kong University of Science and Technology as a Professor at the Department of Finance at theSchool of Business and Management.[1]
Jin was namedYoung Global Leader by theWorld Economic Forum in 2014.[12] Jin was also a visiting professor atYale University on the Cowles Fellowship from September to December 2012 as well as at theUniversity of California, Berkeley from January to May 2015.[13] In 2022, Jin joined the board ofCredit Suisse[14] and was a member of the Risk Committee and the Digital Transformation and Technology Committee.[15] She is a member of theChina Finance 40 Forum.[4]: 136
Jin has advised and consulted for theWorld Bank, theInternational Monetary Fund, and theFederal Reserve Bank of New York.[16] She also has had experience at financial institutions, includingGoldman Sachs,JP Morgan, andMorgan Stanley.[16] She is a columnist forProject Syndicate andCaixin Magazine,[9][16] and has contributed opinion pieces to media outlets such as theFinancial Times and theSouth China Morning Post.[9] Jin also serves as a non-executive director ofRichemont Group, the world's second-largest luxury goods company.[17] She served on a working committee forChina Banking Regulatory Commission on Fintech[9][16] and sat on the editorial board of theReview of Economic Studies.[13][9]
In emails exchanged betweenJeffrey Epstein andLarry Summers from 2018 to 2019, later released in theEpstein files by theU.S. Department of Justice, Summers referred to a romantic interest in his mentee Jin, whom Summers and Epstein called “peril,” a nickname apparently drawn from the racist “yellow peril” trope. Jin did not publicly respond to the event, and the released emails showed no evidence that she reciprocated Summers’s interest.[18][19][20][21]
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