Dr. Mo is a managing director and the chief economist at AIG. In this role, he is responsible for developing international residential and commercial real estate forecast models, and provides macroeconomic projections for the firm’s asset management (+$350bn AUM) and insurance businesses. Dr. Mo joined AIG December 2013.
Previously, Dr. Mo worked as a director and senior economist in the Economics Research team at Credit Suisse. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Dr. Mo worked as a research assistant at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Dr. Mo has published in top-tier academic journals and has regularly presented at academic, regulatory, and industrial conferences. His research work was regularly quoted by the world’s leading financial media. Dr. Mo has also done executive teaching at a number of institutions including Tsinghua PBC School of Finance, Cheung Kung Graduate School of Business, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, etc.
Dr. Mo received both his MPhil and PhD in Economics from the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York and BS in Electronics and Information System from Zhongshan University. He also studied in the Mathematics in Finance Program at New York University and in the Economics Program at the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, respectively. Dr. Mo is a CFA charter holder. He is also a member of Council for Asset and Investment Management at The Institute of International Finance (IIF), The Economic Club of New Work and a Board member of The Chinese Finance Association (TCFA).
Christine Y Zhao is a Managing Partner of Yuanming Capital, a VCPE fund focused on cross-border investment and acquisition opportunities between US and China. Previously she was the Group Chief Financial Officer of Best Logistics Technologies, a pre-IPO internet-age infrastructure company with valuation over $3bn and major investors including Alibaba, Goldman, Walden, IDG, Softbank, IFC, China Everbrite and Citics PE. Prior to this, she was a Managing Director in Bank of America Merrill Lynch and an Executive Director in JPMorgan, where she held senior positions in HQ and global corporate and investment banking units (including regional CFO/COO). She also worked at American Express in New York, London, Singapore in various capacities including strategy and corporate venture investing, in investment banking at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, and in corporate development at FedEx Corporation in U.S. She has managed teams across four continents.
A Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Christine holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Economics with distinction from Fudan University in Shanghai, China. She is also a Board member of the Chinese Finance Association (TCFA), a non-profit organization with over 6,000 members worldwide. Christine is fluent in both Mandarin and Cantonese.
赵颖女士（Christine Y Zhao）, 元明资本管理合伙人,从事中美投资及跨境并购。曾任百世物流科技（中国）有限公司集团CFO，管理逾500人团队。公司估值超30亿美金，投资方包括阿里巴巴，高盛，软银，世界银行，中信及光大资本等。赵女士拥有丰富的华尔街顶级大型金融机构高层管理经验，历任美林美银董事总经理，摩根大通总部、投资及企业银行部执行董事（包括区域CFO/COO）。之前并曾在高盛投资银行, 美国运通战略及风投部, 联邦快递企业发展部等任职。在中国、纽约、伦敦、香港及新加坡均工作过，管理团队跨四大洲。赵女士拥有哈佛大学工商管理硕士及复旦大学世界经济学士学位，并是美国注册金融分析师（CFA）及北美华人金融协会董事 (TCFA Board member)。
David Zhang is currently a Managing Director and head of Securitization Research at MSCI. His group is responsible for securitized products research, modeling, and analytics that support MSCI’s clients in investment, risk and portfolio management, regulatory requirement, and indices. MSCI’s 7000 clients across 85 countries include pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, mutual funds, hedge funds, wealth management firms, banks and insurance companies. We serve the 99 of the 100 largest financial firms.
Before joining MSCI, David worked at Credit Suisse investment bank for 12 years, as a Managing Director and head of Securitized Products Quantitative Research. His group was responsible for securitized products modeling and analytics for trading strategies, capital and risk analysis, regulatory requirement, and client analytics. His group has been consistently top ranked by various industry and client surveys, including Institutional Investor All American Research team, and Greenwich Associate Survey. The mortgage models on the online platform Locus were one of the most used analytics system in the industry.
David worked in Freddie Mac, CIBC Oppenheimer, and University of Chicago after his PhD from Princeton. He serves as director for PRMIA (Professional Risk Management International Association) NY chapter, as well as for GCREC (Global Chinese Real Estate Congress). He has published widely in academic and industry journals.
Richard Wang is currently a board of director for TCFA. He serves as a director at DYNC Atlantic Property and Investment, an assets management and private equity firm based in Washington DC. Before that, he served as a risk manager at Investment & Capital Market division of Freddie Mac. He also worked as a consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and managed fixed income securities securitization and financial derivatives evaluation for various clients in banking and capital market. He holds a master’s degree of business administration in Finance from R.H Smith School of Business at University of Maryland, College Park.
Yiwei Liu is a trader at a hedge fund with a focus on global fixed income market. Prior to this role, she was a Vice President at Credit Suisse, responsible for trading and risk management for the XVA management group. She also worked as a desk quant at the Credit Suisse Securitized Product Group where she was responsible for pricing model development, regulatory modelling and trading analytics development.
Yiwei received her Master of Financial Engineering degree from Columbia University. She graduated with dual Bachelor's Degree in Applied Math and Economics from Peking University.
Hui Shao is a Director in Quantitative Strategy Group in the equity Global Market of Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The team is mainly responsible for the quantitative solution development and financial engineering in equity sales and trading business. Previously, he was a Director in the Global Risk Analytics of BofA. The team is responsible for the development of models and system for fair value adjustment, counterparty risk management, regulatory capital calculation, stressed testing. Before BofA, Hui worked as a Senior Manager in the Quantitative Advisory Service in Ernst and Young and quantitative analyst in Moody’s Investors Service. Hui holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics from Peking University and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University.
