Mr. Xianguo (Jerry) Huang is Deputy Group Head and Acting Head of the Macro-Financial Research Group (MFR) at AMRO. He leads AMRO’s macro-financial research agenda and oversees the Group’s work program, data management, and knowledge management initiatives. He has contributed extensively to AMRO’s surveillance and analytical work, including the ASEAN+3 Regional Economic Outlook (AREO), macro-financial research, and country surveillance across several ASEAN+3 economies.
From 2022 to 2024, Mr. Huang was seconded to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where he worked in the Strategy, Policy, and Review Department as an internal reviewer and contributed to debt sustainability and external sector assessments supporting IMF lending programs.
His research focuses on macro-critical structural issues, including population ageing, social security systems, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies. His work has been published in journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Environmental and Resource Economics, and Emerging Markets Finance and Trade.
Mr. Huang holds a Ph.D. in Public Economics from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo, Japan, and was a visiting scholar at the University of New South Wales, Australia.