Following teaching roles at the University of New England and Macquarie University in the early 1980s, Hans was appointed Chief Economist at State Bank NSW in 1991. He moved to the chief economist role at Colonial First State in 1997 before retiring in 2009. After writing his first book, Hans joined St.George Banking Group as its Chief Economist in 2012 but set up Compass Economics in 2017 where he now writes and speaks on economic affairs for his various clients.

Stephen Green is an economist at Capital Group, responsible for covering Asia. He has 14 years of investment industry experience and has been with Capital Group for four years. Prior to joining Capital, he was head of economic research for Greater China at Standard Chartered Bank, in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. Before that he ran the Asia Programme at Chatham House, the U.K think tank. He holds a PhD in government from the London School of Economics and a first-class honours degree in social and political sciences from Cambridge University. Stephen is based in Hong Kong.

Sean Taylor is DWS Group's Chief Investment Officer for APAC and Head of Emerging Market Equities having joined the company in 2013 with 21 years of industry experience. Prior to his current role, Sean was the Regional Investment Head APAC at Pioneer. Prior to this, he managed global and international mandates at GAM based in London and Dubai. Prior to joining GAM, Sean was head of global equity at Societe Generale. He started his career as a fund manager at Capel Cure Myers. Until 1992 Sean served as an officer in the British Army having attended the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He has an MBA from Manchester Business School.

Bob is executive director and chief global economist for Principal Global Investors.

In these capacities, he establishes and directs global economic policy and strategy, oversees and conducts macroeconomic and quantitative research, forecasts economic trends and anticipates market movements, and advises the investment staff in making economically sound investment decisions. Bob also directs macro-economic research for Principal Portfolio Strategies, an asset allocation boutique of Principal Global Investors.

Ben Powell, CFA, is Chief Investment Strategist for APAC within the BlackRock Investment Institute. Mr. Powell is responsible for delivering value added market and investment insights across asset classes in the APAC region. He is experienced in developing both a macro level framework, and tactical ideas that sit within that framework. Mr. Powell has more than 17 years of experience in Capital Markets.

Before joining BlackRock in 2019, Mr. Powell was co-Head of UBS Investment Bank Multi-Asset APAC Sales based in Singapore. In this role he was responsible for managing a team generating insights for clients across Fixed Income, Equities, Absolute Return and Quantitative investment strategies.

Danielle has more than 15 years' experience as an economist in government, consulting and the not-for-profit sector.

She is currently the Budget Policy and Institutional Reform Program Director at the Grattan Institute where her research and advocacy efforts focus on tax and budget policy, inequality, competition policy and political reform.

Danielle has a Masters of Economics and a Masters in Competition Law from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Adelaide. Danielle is the National Chair of the Women in Economics Network and sits on the Central Council for the Economic Society of Australia.