Zhou Chengjun Ph.D
Director General, Research Institute of PBoC;
Research Scholar and Professor of PBoC

Mr. Zhou Chengjun started his career at the People’s Bank of China (PBoC, China’s Central Bank) in 2003. He worked as a post-doctorate at PBoC’s Research Institute of Banking and Finance from July 2003 to July 2005. From 2005 to 2015, he worked in PBoC’s General Administration Office, writing intensively on central bank policy and drafting key policies and research documents for PBoC. Mr. Zhou was designated as Deputy Head of the General Administration Office from August 2013 to April 2015. From April 2015 to January 2017, he had been performing as Deputy Director General of the Monetary Policy Department Ⅱ of PBoC. He acted as the deputy head of the Research Bureau of the PBoC during January 2017 to March 2019, and the Senior Advisor (DG level) of the newly established Macroprudential Policy Bureau under PBoC from March 2019 to April 2020. And from January 2017 to January 2018, he was working as a senior research associate and visiting scholar at Harvard Kennedy School. Since April 2020, he has been serving as the Director General of the Research Institute of the PBoC. Additionally, Mr. Zhou has also been working as a research scholar and professor at the Research Institute of PBoC, the University of International Business and Economics since 2011, and the Director of the Cross-Border RMB Business Committee of the China Society for Finance and Banking.

In June 2012, Mr. Zhou Chengjun won the National May Fourth Medal, which is one of the highest national honors to China’s youth. His research area included macroeconomics and monetary policy, reform of China’s economic and financial system, and the RMB internationalization and relevant policies.Since 2000, Mr. Zhou has published nearly seventy academic papers and essays in journals including Social Science in China and Financial Research. He is also the author of A Research on Macroeconomic effect of the Asset Price Fluctuation in China as in Constitutional Transition Period, published by Economic Science Publisher in 2004. Mr. Zhou Chengjun is the promoter member of the China Financial Forum, member of the Academic Committee of the International Financial Forum and the special member of China Finance 40 Forum. He is also a special research fellow in the National Institute of Financial Research, Tsinghua University, as well as a part-time professor and doctoral supervisor in the University of International Business and Economics.

Born in 1975, Mr. Zhou received his Bachelor Degree in Power Engineering in 1997 and a Master Degree in Finance in 2000 from Southeast University; and a Ph.D in Economics in 2003 from Nanjing University.