George Magnus

George Magnus is an independent economist and commentator, an associate at the China Center at Oxford University and an adviser to asset management companies. 

 During his career in finance, Mr. Magnus served as the Chief Economist of UBS Investment Bank (2006-2012) and subsequently as Senior Economic Adviser (2012-2016). 

Before joining UBS, Mr. Magnus was the Chief Economist at S.G. Warburg (1987-1995), Chief International Economist at Chase Securities (1985-1987) and Head of Economics for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Bank of America (1977-1985). 

Mr. Magnus received an MSc. Econ from the School of Oriental and African Studies, did postgraduate research at the University of Illinois and taught economics at the University of Westminster and at Illinois. 

Over many years, Mr. Magnus has researched and written about the global economy. He received plaudits for having predicted a “Minsky Moment” in 2007 as the world’s financial crisis was starting to erupt. In the long shadows of that crisis, and through the Euro crisis, a decade of expansion that has felt disappointing, the eruption of Western populism and the evolution of a more authoritarian and assertive China, he has posed trenchant questions and offered thoughtful insights. 

He is married, has four children and lives in north London.