Johanna Chua
Based in Hong Kong since 2000, she oversees overall economic research across Asia-Pacific, including China, India, Korea, ASEAN, frontier Asian markets, as well as developed economies like Japan and Australia. Previously, Johanna was the Chief Asia Emerging Markets Trading Strategist (Fixed Income, Commodities and Currencies), and the Asia Sovereign Fixed Income Analyst prior to 2009.
Johanna ranked number #1 to #2 for four years in-a-row among Asia economists in the Global Fixed Income Institutional Investor (II) from 2019-2022, as has her team for the same survey in the same years. Her team ranked #2 in the equity-focused Asia-Pacific II in 2019, runner up in 2020 and #3 in 2021. She has been consistently ranked at the top of various fixed income surveys by The Asset, FinanceAsia and Eleonora (for European investors) for several years throughout her career.
Johanna has a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of the Philippines.
Based in Hong Kong since 2000, she oversees overall economic research across Asia-Pacific, including China, India, Korea, ASEAN, frontier Asian markets, as well as developed economies like Japan and Australia. Previously, Johanna was the Chief Asia Emerging Markets Trading Strategist (Fixed Income, Commodities and Currencies), and the Asia Sovereign Fixed Income Analyst prior to 2009.
Johanna ranked number #1 to #2 for four years in-a-row among Asia economists in the Global Fixed Income Institutional Investor (II) from 2019-2022, as has her team for the same survey in the same years. Her team ranked #2 in the equity-focused Asia-Pacific II in 2019, runner up in 2020 and #3 in 2021. She has been consistently ranked at the top of various fixed income surveys by The Asset, FinanceAsia and Eleonora (for European investors) for several years throughout her career.
Johanna has a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of the Philippines.