Yang Du

Associate, Moller Institute, Churchill College, University of Cambridge

Former Vice Chairman, Chinese Asset Management Association of Hong Kong

Yang Du is an expert on China’s financial liberalisation and economic transformation. He has worked in financial services for over 17 years in asset management, fixed income and financial technologies. His professional footprint ranges across London, New York, Sydney, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Yang has held a number of senior roles including Chief Strategist and Head of Fixed Income at CSOP Asset Management, Managing Director and Head of Asset Management at China Securities International, Managing Director at Yaozhi Asset Management, and Head of China Business Desk for EMEA & Americas at Thomson Reuters. He has also held the post of Vice Chair of the Chinese Asset Management Association of Hong Kong; and of Secretary General of the Financial Innovation Committee at WRSA.

Additionally, Yang is an active intellectual contributor to the opening of China’s capital account including RMB internationalisation. He played a critical role in the formation of RMB offshore centre in the UK and he has also advised several governments on strategy and policies. Yang co-founded the RMB Interest Group in London, which quickly became an influential knowledge-exchange platform among financial practitioners, regulators, and academics. The group encouraged and assisted a number of emerging business leaders and influenced many subject areas including foreign exchange, investment, commodities and financial policy. The group is still active today and continues to be influential.

Yang is also an Associate at the Moller Institute of Churchill College in the University of Cambridge where he lectures on international finance and leadership. He holds a BA degree from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, M.Litt from the University of St Andrews, and is now studying for a Master of Law in IPE at Renmin University of China. In his spare time Yang is a fan of opera and is an enthusiastic participant in Olympic recurve archery.