Stephen Roach

Stephen Roach has been a senior fellow at Yale University since 2010 where he developed new courses on Asia — notably "The Next China" and "The Lessons of Japan." Prior to moving to academia, he spent thirty years at Morgan Stanley where for the bulk of his career he served as the firm's chief economist, heading up a highly regarded team of economists around the world. From 2007 to 2010 he was the Hong Kong-based Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia with oversight responsibilities for the firm’s client relationships in the region. His recent research has focused on the conflict-prone US-China relationship, which was featured in his 2014 book, Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China and in his new book, Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives (November 2022). Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1982, he worked in senior capacities at Morgan Guaranty Trust Company and the Federal Reserve Board in Washington D.C. He holds a PhD in economics from New York University and was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution. He lives in New Canaan, Connecticut.