Stephen Roach

A rare combination of thought leadership on Wall Street and academia qualifies Stephen Roach as a leading practitioner of analytical macroeconomics. After thirty years at Morgan Stanley, mainly as the firm’s chief economist and eventually as the Hong Kong-based Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, he joined the Yale faculty in 2010 where he developed popular new courses — “The Next China” and “The Lessons of Japan.”

A forecaster by training in his early days as a Fed economist, Stephen Roach has long been mindful of the perils of historical extrapolation. As seen through that lens, his vision of the “Next China” offers a unique template for the exciting but daunting possibilities of China’s uncertain future.

Roach’s focus on the US-China relationship is an outgrowth of the interplay between two major strands of his professional experience—as a leading US economist and an influential analyst of a rising China. His two most recent books—Accidental Conflict (2022) and Unbalanced (2014)—draw extensively on that focus.

Stephen Roach has a Ph.D. in economics from New York University and lives in New Canaan, CT.

He was interviewed recently by the Editor-in-Chief of The China Project, Jeremy Goldkorn, in which he shared some of his thoughts on where China is headed.

He will be the Keynote speaker on Day 1 of our conference online, and we will be hosting a special lifetime achievement award and dinner honoring him on November 10 in New York City.

Buy your seat at the dinner to get a chance to talk face-to-face with one of the most brilliant minds in geopolitics and economics.