Hengzhong Liu

Hengzhong Liu is a Managing Partner of Thoken.io, a fin-tech startup optimized for micropayments. He previously managed groups of risk management, quantitative modeling, and business strategies as Senior Vice President or Managing Director at Citigroup, CIT Group, Fifth-Third Bank and Bank of America. Hengzhong published two books and many papers and articles in both Chinese and English on financial markets, marketing strategies, Chinese economic reform and development. One of his contributions is his macro-model of the impact of the endogenous demand from rural-urban migration on economic development (contrasted with Arthur Lewis' micro-model of two-sector transition), which made him one of the final candidates for the CCTV, the China Central Television, Best Chinese Economist of Year 2008. He Holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Graduate Center of City University of New York, and a B.A in politics and government from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law.