David Zhang

David Zhang is an Managing Director and Head of Securitized Products and Fixed Income Solutions at MSCI, since December 2016. His team is responsible for developing securitized and fixed income solutions to support investment analysis, risk management, regulatory compliance, sustainability and climate, and have also pioneered and published several housing, mortgage valuation, big data, artificial intelligence and physical risk researches. Between 2005 and 2016, Dr Zhang was Managing Director and head of Securitized Products modeling at Credit Suisse Investment Bank for twelve years, responsible for supporting risk, regulatory and client analytics as well as sales, trading quantitative strategies. Dr Zhang’s group developed one of the most widely used MBS models by fixed income institutional investors. Their work was consistently awarded top ranking by various industry and client surveys, including Institutional Investor All-America Research Team ranking in Agency prepayment. David is former president and board director of TCFA (The Chinese Finance Association). He also serves on board of GCREC (Global Chinese Real Estate Congress), NY PRMIA (Professional Risk Management International Association), and UN PRI’s securitization advisory committee. He co-chairs the China Market Committee of SFA (Structured Finance Industry Group). He has published widely in academic and industry journals. Dr Zhang has a Ph.D. from Princeton University.