Corrinne Ho
Corrinne Ho joined the BIS in 2000 as an economist. From 2003 to 2007, she was on assignment in the BIS Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific, located in Hong Kong SAR. She returned to Basel in 2008 to join the secretariat of the Committee on the Global Financial System, became Secretary to the Markets Committee in 2009 and then Adviser to the General Manager in 2013. She served as Head of Strategy Implementation from 2019 to mid-2020 to oversee the start of Innovation BIS 2025. She was then appointed to her current role to foster internal work on climate change-related financial topics and to coordinate with relevant external initiatives. Before joining the BIS, Corrinne was at Princeton University, teaching for the Economics Department and the School of Public and International Affairs while completing her doctoral degree in economics. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on modern-day currency boards.
Fields of interest
- International finance
- Exchange rates and reserves
- Central banking
- " Assessment of solutions to US financial crisis of 2008-09" (with F Signoretti), in G Caprio (ed), The evidence and impact of financial globalization, Academic Press, 2012, pp 721-35.
- " Global liquidity: where it comes from and why it matters" (with P Catte), in J Boorman and A Icard (eds), Reform of the international monetary system, SAGE Publications Pvt Ltd, 2011, pp 209-17.
- " Implementing monetary policy in the 2000s: operating procedures in Asia and beyond", in P Siklos, M Bohl and M Wohar (eds), Challenges in central banking: the current institutional environment and forces affecting monetary policy, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp 83-117. Longer original available as BIS Working Papers, no 253, June 2008.
- " The domestic financial consequences of reserve accumulation: some evidence from Asia" (with R McCauley), in R Rajan, S Thangavelu and R Parinduri (eds), Exchange rate, monetary and financial issues and policies in Asia, World Scientific, 2009, pp 117-53.
- " The markets for non-deliverable forwards in Asian currencies" (with G Ma and R McCauley), China Money, no 38, December 2004, pp 4-8. Longer original version available in BIS Quarterly Review, June 2004, pp 81-94.
- " Macroeconomic news and the euro/dollar exchange rate" (with G Galati), Economic Notes, vol 32, November 2003, pp 371-98. Original available as BIS Working Papers, no 105, January 2002.