Johanna is a Managing Director, Head of Emerging Market Economics and Chief Asia Economist at Citigroup. Based in Hong Kong since 2000, she recently assumed the role overseeing economic research across Emerging Markets including Emerging Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa and Latin America.
Prior to her appointing, she was the head of Economics Research for Asia-Pacific, covering China, India, Korea, ASEAN, frontier Asian markets, as well as developed economies like Japan and Australia. Previously, Johanna was the Chief Asia Emerging Markets Trading Strategist (Fixed Income, Commodities and Currencies), and the Asia Sovereign Fixed Income Analyst prior to 2009.
Johanna and her team ranked number #1 in Asia Economics in 4 of the 5 Global Fixed Income Institutional Investor (II) from 2019-2023. Her team ranked #3 in the equity-focused Asia-Pacific II in 2022 and 2021 and runner up in 2020. She has been consistently ranked at the top of various fixed income surveys by The Asset, FinanceAsia and Eleonora (for European investors) for several years throughout her career.
Johanna has a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of the Philippines.
