Xu Sitao is Chief Economist of China, Partner at Deloitte, spearheading Deloitte's Economic & Industry research. Prior to Deloitte, he was Chief Representative of China of the Economist Group (from 2004 to 2014).In 2003, Sitao worked for ICBC (Asia) as the Head of Economics. He was SocieteGenerale’s Chief Economist for Asia (ex-Japan) from 2001 to 2002. He joined Standard Chartered Bank as Regional Treasury Economist in 1996, and he was the Economist for Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand in Singapore, working for MMS International of Standard and Poor’s Group in 1995. Sitao has written for YaleGlobal, the Asian Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Caijing and 21st Century. He appears regularly on CNBC, Bloomberg, CCTV, and other TV shows as a commentator on China. He is on the Speaker Retainer Program for the Virginia-based CFA Institute.  He is often being invited by leading MNCs to their board rooms, to present key issues on China.Sitao holds a B.A. in Economics from Peking University, an M.A. in Economics from the University of Connecticut, and a M.S. in Finance from Boston College. He is a visiting scholar at Hoover Institution at Stanford University in 2012.He is a clinical professor at the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University.