Pan Gongsheng
潘功胜
Pan in 2022
13th Governor of the People's Bank of China
Assumed office
25 July 2023
PremierLi Qiang
Preceded byYi Gang
Communist Party Secretary of the People's Bank of China
Assumed office
1 July 2023
General SecretaryXi Jinping
Preceded byGuo Shuqing
Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China
In office
December 2012  25 July 2023
GovernorZhou Xiaochuan
Yi Gang
Personal details
Born (1963-07-08) July 8, 1963
Anqing, Anhui, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party
Alma materRenmin University of China

Pan Gongsheng (Chinese: 潘功胜; pinyin: Pān Gōngshèng; born July 8, 1963) is a Chinese economist who is the current Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary and governor of the People's Bank of China (PBC) and the Director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange. At the PBC, he has worked on the monetary policy of China.

Education

Pan received his Ph.D. in economics from Renmin University of China. He did his post-doctoral research at Cambridge University and was a research fellow at Harvard University.[1]

Career

Commercial Banking

Pan was Vice President of Agricultural Bank of China from 2008-2010. Prior to Agricultural Bank Pan worked at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in a number of positions.[1]

People's Bank of China

In 2012, Pan joined the People's Bank of China as Deputy Governor, and later assumed leadership of State Administration of Foreign Exchange, as its administrator.[2][1] Pan leads Leading Group of Internet Financial Risks Remediation, which has been tasked with clamping down on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in China.[3]

He is also a member of the Academic Committee of the China Finance 40 Forum (CF40).[4] In July 2023, he was appointed as the secretary of the People's Bank of China Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, succeeding Guo Shuqing.[5][6]

In 2023, Pan was appointed as the Governor of the People’s Bank of China.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 http://www.pbc.gov.cn/english/130715/130839/index.html
  2. "国家外汇管理局信息门户". State Administration of Foreign Exchange. Archived from the original on 2018-01-17. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  3. Russell, John (9 January 2018). "China is reportedly moving to clamp down on bitcoin miners". TechCrunch. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  4. "Organizational Structure". CF40.
  5. Pisharody, Gokul; Gautam, Bharat Govind (2023-07-01). "China foreign-exchange regulator Pan Gongsheng named central-bank party boss". Reuters. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
  6. White, Edward; Leng, Cheng (2023-07-01). "Western-trained banker in line to lead China's central bank". Financial Times. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
  7. "中华人民共和国主席令(第八号)--新闻报道-中国共产党新闻网". cpc.people.com.cn. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
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