Dr. Xu Hu is the Head of Research at the Chinese Academy of Financial Inclusion (CAFI) and the Secretary General of the International Forum for China Impact Investing (IFCII).
In his role at IFCII, Dr. Hu has been actively involved in building the impact investing ecosystem in China and coordinated the effort for the forum to become the China National Partner of GSG Impact. At CAFI, Dr. Hu leads research on sustainable and inclusive finance, with a focus on impact investing, inclusive green finance, financing for SME sustainability, and blended finance.
Dr. Hu has published research on impact accounting methodologies and contributed to the development of the International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI) methodologies. He served as a member of the Technical Working Group on Conceptual Foundations for the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD).
Before joining CAFI, Dr. Hu was the Deputy Head of Research at Ping An Digital Economic Research Center, where he led the team to provide AI and Big Data driven macroeconomics and investment research. He began his career in academia as an Assistant Professor of macroeconomics and international finance at Fudan University.