Eli Remolona Explained

Eli Remolona Jr.
Order:	7th
President:	Bongbong Marcos
Office1:	Member of the Monetary Board of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Office:	Governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Deputy:	Francisco G. Dakila Jr. Eduardo G. Bobier Chuchi G. Fonacier Mamerto Tangonan Bernadette Romulo-Puyat
Term Start:	July 3, 2023
Predecessor:	Felipe Medalla
Birth Date:	^[1]
Nationality:	Filipino
Education:	Ateneo de Manila University (AB)^[2] Stanford University (Ph.D. Ec.)
Occupation:	Professor
Profession:	Economist

Eli M. Remolona Jr. (born 1952) is a Filipino economist serving as the governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the central monetary authority of the Philippines, and the ex officio chairman of the Anti-Money Laundering Council, the central anti-money laundering/counter-terrorism financing authority of the Philippines, under the Bongbong Marcos administration since July 3, 2023.

He previously worked for 14 years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and for 19 years at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), where he was regional head for Asia and the Pacific from 2008 to 2018. He was an editor of the BIS Quarterly Review and was an associate editor for finance of the International Journal of Central Banking, as of 2005.^[3]

Selected works

Two of his most cited co-authored articles according to his Scopus author profile^[5] are:

Amstad, Marlene; Remolona, Eli M.; Shek, Jimmy. (September 2016). "How do global investors differentiate between sovereign risks? The new normal versus the old". Journal of International Money and Finance. 66: 32–48. doi: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2015.12.006. ScienceDirect. Also published as BIS Working Papers, no 541.
Don, Kim H.; Loretan, Mico; Remolona, Eli M. (June 2010). "Contagion and risk premia in the amplification of crisis: Evidence from Asian names in the global CDS market". Journal of Asian Economics. 21 (3): 314–326. doi: 10.1016/j.asieco.2009.07.010. ScienceDirect.