Andrew Polk is a Director at Medley Advisers, a leading macro policy intelligence service for the world’s top hedge funds, investment banks, asset managers and corporations.
Andrew is perhaps best-know among the European business community from his time as the resident economist at The Conference Board China Center for Economics and Business in Beijing. Prior, Polk worked at the Institute of International Finance, where he conducted macroeconomic analysis on emerging markets in the Asia/Pacific region. His research focus has included monetary policy, capital flows, and financial market development throughout East and Southeast Asia, with a particular emphasis on China. He has also conducted growth and inflation forecasting and country risk analysis for the region. Polk has held research positions at the East Asia Desk of the U.S. Treasury Department, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Foreign Policy magazine.