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For 25 years, Paul Cavey has been an economist working on Asia. From 1997 he worked in the Asia team at the Economist Intelligence Unit, eventually becoming Chief China Economist. Following that, he spent seven years at Macquarie Securities as Head of China Economics, working with equity and commodity clients. Between 2012 and 2021 he was a Macro Strategist in a global fixed income team at Wellington Management, where he led the firm’s macro analysis and forecasting efforts on China, Japan, and Korea.

After first spending a year in Henan in the mid-1990s, he has now spent two decades living in the region, in Taipei, Beijing, Hong Kong and Tokyo. He is now living in Taiwan. He is fluent in Chinese.

paul@eastasiaecon.com