Erik Berglof is the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s first chief economist. He started Sept. 1.
Prior to joining the bank, Berglof was director of the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics. He previously served as chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
In 2019, he was part of the high-level “Wise Persons Group” that scrutinized European development finance. Before that, he was deputy secretary of the G20 Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance.