Barclays has appointed Dr Nigel Chalk as managing director and head of emerging Asia research.
He joins the firm from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) where he was most recently the China mission chief and a senior advisor on Greater China and Mongolia. In this role, he helped lead the IMF's annual Article IV consultations with China, governing obligations around exchange agreements.
Dr Chalk was also responsible for the IMF's biannual regional economic outlook for Asia and the Pacific.
Since joining the fund 1997 he has worked in Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia and Brazil, and held specialist roles in Russia, Korea and the Philippines.
In his new role, Dr Chalk will be based in Singapore and will lead Barclays' macro-economic, foreign exchange (FX) and interest rate teams across Asia Pacific.
He will report to Piero Ghezzi, Barclays' head of global economics, emerging markets and FX research, and Jon Scoffin, head of research, Asia Pacific.
