GENE HUANG, Ph.D.

Biography

Gene Huang is Chief Economist for FedEx and a Managing Director of the company’s Economic and Industry Analysis Group.  He is responsible for forecasting global economic and financial conditions.  Gene and his team track and monitor all industries served by FedEx.  

Gene is a member of the Blue Chip Consensus Panel, which provides the economic consensus used by policy makers as well as the business community, the Wall Street Journal Economic Panel and BusinessWeek Magazine’s Business Outlook Panel.  In 2002, Gene was profiled in BusinessWeek as its “Most Accurate Forecaster”.  In 2006, he was ranked the second place among the nation’s top forecasters by the Wall Street Journal.  He credits his forecasting success to the “front row seat” that FedEx provides him in global Supply Chain Management.  Gene is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE).  He plays an active role in the business economic and policy circle.  He is a member of the most selective groups of business economists including the Conference of Business Economists, National Business Economic Issues Council, and the Harvard Industrial Economists Group.

Gene began his corporate career in 1987 with a Wall Street money management firm.  Since then he has worked for some of the largest industrial corporations and most prestigious research institutions in the U.S. and Japan, including Eaton Corporation, General Motors Corporation, ICSEAD in Japan, and Wharton School’s Economic Research Unit. 

Gene received his M.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.  He also holds a law degree from Fudan University in Shanghai. 

He is the author of two books in business economics and many articles published in U.S., Japanese, and European economic and policy journals. Gene is frequently interviewed and quoted by leading news journals in the U.S. and abroad and has made appearances on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, BBC TV, and CCTV as an economic commentator.  He has also served in an advisory capacity to U.S. Federal Government agencies and international organizations.