Eli M Remolona, Jr was Chief Representative for Asia and the Pacific of the BIS.
He also served as the Secretary of the Asian Consultative Council, which consists of the governors of the 12 leading central banks in the region. He was also Associate Editor of the International Journal of Central Banking. Until 2008, he was Head of Economics for Asia and the Pacific of the BIS. Eli joined the BIS in 1999 and for six years served as Head of Financial Markets in Basel and Editor of the BIS Quarterly Review. Before that, he was Research Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he worked for 14 years. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.