Jim Walker (economist)

Dr. Jim Walker is a Hong Kong-based independent economist and investment strategist, the Founder and Chief Economist of Asianomics Group Ltd., an economic research and consultancy company servicing the fund management industry. He also serves as a Non-Executive Director of Leopard Cambodia Fund and Director of India Capital Management.

Prior to establishing Asianomics in 2007, Dr. Walker was the chief economist at CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets. He joined CLSA in late 1991. Walker was voted best 'regional economist' by the Asiamoney Stockbrokers Poll for 11 years in a row from 1994-2004 and has been regularly acclaimed in the private Greenwich Surveys of fund managers in Asia, Europe and the USA. Walker is best known for forecasting the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the 2007 US downturn and the financial sector meltdown. He maintains a bearish outlook on Quantitative Easing policies and is an adherent of the Austrian School of economics. Dr. Jim frequently updates his social media profiles with quips of his personal economic views, many of which are summarised in a monthly commentary he publishes called Wealthy Nations.

Before coming to Asia, Walker worked in Scotland as a research fellow at the Fraser of Allander Institute for Research on the Scottish Economy, and then at The Royal Bank of Scotland’s Edinburgh headquarters. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (Honours) and a PhD in economics from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.