DBS Bank has hired a new Chief Economist with experience that spans central and commercial banks, as well as the Internatonal Monetary Fund. Before joining DBS he was with the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
Taimur Baig will be joining DBS on 9 October as a new Chief Economist and Managing Director for Group Research. His work experience in Singapore and Washington, D.C. spans central and commercial banks, as well as the International Monetary Fund (IMF). His areas of specialty include international finance, macro risk spillover, exchange rate and fixed income analytics and forecasting, the economics of financial crisis, and demographics, DBS wrote in a press release on Friday.
Baig will report to Timothy Wong, Managing Director and Head of DBS Group Research. He takes over from David Carbon, who is retiring.
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Prior to joining DBS, he was the Principal Economist at the Economic Policy Group at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). He had previously spent nearly a decade at Deutsche Bank’s Singapore office, where his last position was Managing Director and Chief Economist, Asia.
Before Deutsche Bank, Baig was at the IMF for eight years from 1999, where his last position was Senior Economist. Rotating across the Asia and Pacific, Fiscal Affairs, and European Departments. He has published extensively for both specialists and a general audience. Baig holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and attended Wabash College and the London School of Economics for his B.A.
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