Dr. Xiaonian Xu is Honorary Professor at CEIBS, where he served as Professor of Economics and Finance from 2004 to 2018. He has worked for China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC) since 1999 as Managing Director and Head of Research. Prior to CICC, Dr. Xu was Senior Economist with Merrill Lynch Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong from 1997 to 1998. He worked as a consultant of the World Bank in Washington DC in 1996. Dr. Xu was appointed Assistant Professor of Amherst College, Massachusetts, from 1991 to 1995, teaching Economics and Financial Markets. He was employed by the State Development Research Centre of China as a research fellow from 1981 to 1985.
 
Dr. Xu obtained a Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Davis, in 1991, and MA in Industrial Economics in 1981 from People's University of China. He received the Sun Yefang Economics Prize in 1996, the highest Chinese award in the field, for his research on China’s capital markets. His research interests include: Macroeconomics, Financial Institutions and Financial Markets, Transitional Economies, China’s Economic Reform, Corporate Strategy and Digital Transformation. Dr. Xu is the recipient of the 2005 and 2006 CEIBS Teaching Excellence Award. He also received the prestigious CEIBS Medal for Teaching Excellence in 2010.