Sitao Xu is chief economist and partner at Deloitte China, spearheading Deloitte's economic and industry research. Prior to Deloitte, he was chief representative of China and Economist Intelligence Unit forecasting director at the Economist Group. Mr. Xu has also worked as the economist for Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand at MMS International of Standard and Poor’s in Singapore and as regional treasury economist at Standard Chartered Bank. He has served as Societe Generale’s chief economist for Asia and head of economics of ICBC (Asia). Mr. Xu has written for YaleGlobal Online Magazine, the Asian Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Caijing, Caixin, and 21st Century Business Herald and appears regularly on CNBC, Bloomberg, and CCTV as a commentator on China. He was a visiting scholar at Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a guest professor at the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University. Mr. Xu holds a BA in economics from Peking University, an MA in economics from the University of Connecticut, and an MS in finance from Boston College.