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DAVID HALE
GLOBAL ECONOMIST
David Hale is a Chicago-based global economist whose clients include investment management firms, major hedge funds, and multinational companies. Mr. Hale serves as the Global Economic Advisor to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He formerly worked as chief economist for Kemper Financial Services from 1977 to 1995 and Zurich Financial Services that he joined as chief economist when it purchased Kemper in 1995.
Mr. Hale holds a B.Sc. degree in international economic affairs from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a M.Sc. degree in economics from the London School of Economics.
Mr. Hale is a member of the National Association of Business Economists and the New York Society of Security Analysts. He writes on a broad range of economic subjects and his articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Far Eastern Economic Review, The Financial Times of London, The New York Times, The Nihon Kezai Shimbun, The Australian Financial Review, The Harvard Business Review, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, National Interest, and other publications.
In September 1990, the New York chapter of the National Association of Business Economists conferred upon Mr. Hale, the William F. Butler Award. Mr. Hale is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority as well as a variety of government and private sector economic policy research groups in Washington, Tokyo, and Berlin.
Mr. Hale is married to Lyric Hughes Hale, founding publisher of China Online. Together they have co-authored several authorization articles on the Chinese economy in Foreign Affairs and the Financial Times.
