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Pan Gongsheng
Pan Gongsheng
潘功胜
	Pan in 2023
13th Governor of the People's Bank of China
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 25 July 2023
Premier	Li Qiang
Preceded by	Yi Gang
Director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange
	In office; 12 January 2016 – 24 November 2023
Premier	Li Keqiang; Li Qiang
Preceded by	Yi Gang
Succeeded by	Zhu Hexin [zh]
Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China
	In office; December 2012 – 25 July 2023
Governor	Zhou Xiaochuan; Yi Gang
Personal details
Born	July 8, 1963 (age 61); Anqing, Anhui, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Alma mater	Renmin University of China

Pan Gongsheng (Chinese: 潘功胜; pinyin: Pān Gōngshèng; born July 8, 1963) is a Chinese economist and politician who is the current Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary and governor of the People's Bank of China (PBC). He served as the Director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange from 2016 to 2023. At the PBC, he has worked on the monetary policy of China.

Education

Pan received his Ph.D. in economics from Renmin University of China. He did his post-doctoral research at Cambridge University and was a research fellow at Harvard University.^[1]

Career

Commercial Banking

Pan was Vice President of Agricultural Bank of China from 2008-2010. Prior to Agricultural Bank Pan worked at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in a number of positions.^[1]

People's Bank of China

In 2012, Pan joined the People's Bank of China as Deputy Governor, and later assumed leadership of State Administration of Foreign Exchange, as its administrator.^[2]^[1] Pan leads Leading Group of Internet Financial Risks Remediation, which has been tasked with clamping down on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in China.^[3]

He is also a member of the Academic Committee of the China Finance 40 Forum (CF40).^[4] In July 2023, he was appointed as the secretary of the People's Bank of China Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, succeeding Guo Shuqing.^[5]^[6]

In 2023, Pan was appointed as the Governor of the People’s Bank of China.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c http://www.pbc.gov.cn/english/130715/130839/index.html
^ "国家外汇管理局信息门户". State Administration of Foreign Exchange. Archived from the original on 2018-01-17. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
^ Russell, John (9 January 2018). "China is reportedly moving to clamp down on bitcoin miners". TechCrunch. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
^ "Organizational Structure". CF40.
^ Pisharody, Gokul; Gautam, Bharat Govind (2023-07-01). "China foreign-exchange regulator Pan Gongsheng named central-bank party boss". Reuters. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
^ White, Edward; Leng, Cheng (2023-07-01). "Western-trained banker in line to lead China's central bank". Financial Times. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
^ "中华人民共和国主席令（第八号）--新闻报道-中国共产党新闻网". cpc.people.com.cn. Retrieved 2023-07-25.

Party political offices
Preceded by Guo Shuqing	Communist Party Secretary of the People's Bank of China 2023–present	Incumbent
Government offices
Preceded by Yi Gang	Director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange 2016–2023	Succeeded by Zhu Hexin
Preceded by Yi Gang	Governor of the People's Bank of China 2023–present	Incumbent