Hoi Wai Jackie Cheng is an economist working at the Financing for Sustainable Development Office of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). His current research focuses on sovereign debt, interaction between technology and development, and the implications of crises for development, in particular how properties of global economic networks affect shock transmission.

 

Jackie's professional experience has been a blend of field work - managing projects in collaboration with ministries and local partners - and research-oriented, headquarters positions that focus on the global and UN system-wide perspectives. In his previous capacity, Jackie was DESA's regional monitor of East and Southeast Asian economies. Before that, he served as the National Economist of UNDP China country office in Beijing, leading its portfolio of economic research that covers social protection, climate change and macro economy.

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Jackie is on the core team of the Financing for Sustainable Development Report by the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development. He was previously a core team member of multiple DESA reports, including World Economic and Social Survey, World Economic Situation and Prospects, World Social Report, Sustainable Development Outlook, and Frontier Technology Issues. He was a core contributor to the UN Economist Network Report for the UN 75th Anniversary and a project team member of UNDP China National Human Development Report. He served as chapter lead for several of these publications. He also published papers/book chapter on data economy, technology diffusion, intellectual property right, fiscal policy, and social protection. 

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Jackie received his MPhil in Economics degree from the University of Oxford.