Eddie Yue has been chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) since 2019, when he became the third person to fill the post, noted as the most experienced individual to take the post. He also serves as deputy chairman and executive director of the Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation.

Yue has worked for the HKMA, the territory’s central banking institution, since it was established in 1993. He started in government service as an administrative officer in 1986 and had his first taste of financial regulation when working at the Office of the Exchange Fund in 1991. He became a division head of the HKMA in 1994, an executive director in 2001 and the deputy chief executive in 2007. The Harvard Business School graduate has been involved in numerous major policy initiatives, helped to deal with two major financial crises and steered the introduction of the Linked Exchange Rate System. He has also encouraged more cross border mutual financial market access and helped to develop green finance.

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