Credit rating agency Moody’s Investors Service has appointed Gong Cheng as its chief credit officer for Asia-Pacific and managing director for its Asia-Pacific credit strategy and research group with responsibility for developing its views on emerging risks, conducting cross-sector macro research and aligning credit views across various industry sectors in the region.
Prior to joining Moody’s, Cheng, who will be based in Hong Kong, has worked extensively in the public sector since 2010, including at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and Banque de France (BdF), the French central bank.
He led policy and research work on green finance, Asian economies, crisis resolution and sovereign debt. As well, he was a member of the Central Banks and Supervisors’ Network for Greening the Financial System and led working groups on green and transition finance and central banks’ net-zero investments.
He has published extensively on topics such as the net-zero transition, climate finance, sovereign debt restructuring, and fiscal and monetary policies.
