Johanna Chua

Johanna Chua is a Non-Executive Director and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Magellan Solutions Outsourcing, Inc.

Currently, Johanna is a Managing Director, Chief Asia Pacific Economist and Head of Asia Pacific Economic and Market Analysis at Citigroup. Based in Hong Kong since 2000, she oversees overall economic research across the Asia Pacific Region (ex-Japan), covering both fixed-income and equity markets.

Previously, Johanna was the Chief Asia Emerging Markets Trading Strategist (Fixed Income, Commodities and Currencies), and the Asia Sovereign Credit Analyst. The Asset magazine rated Johanna No. 1 economist in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Johanna was a leading member of the Citi team rated No. 1 in fixed-income research by FinanceAsia magazine in 2008, 2007, 2005 and 2004 (No. 2 in 2006). FinanceAsia also rated Johanna No. 1 in sovereign credit research for eight consecutive years (2001-2008) and ranked her among the “Best Analysts” across all sectors, including corporate credits (No. 8 in 2008, No. 2 in 2007, No. 3 in 2006, No. 2 in 2005). The Asset local-market survey 2007 ranked Johanna No. 2 analyst in Indonesia and No. 3 analyst in Singapore.

Johanna was the valedictorian and a summa cum laude graduate of the University of the Philippines Diliman School of Economics. She earned her doctoral degree in economics at Harvard University, where she held various teaching assistant positions at the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences and at the Kennedy School of Government. Johanna has also worked with Lehman Brothers’ Sovereign Strategy Group in New York and with the International Monetary Fund’s Fiscal Policy Division in Washington. She has conducted research with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard Institute for International Development and the University of Connecticut’s Food Marketing Policy Center.

A native of the Philippines, Johanna is fluent in English and Pilipino (Tagalog) and competent in Chinese (Mandarin, Hokkien).