Louis Kuijs joins RBS in Hong Kong as chief China economist, responsible for China macroeconomic coverage. In Singapore, Enrico Tanuwidjaja joins the bank as southeast Asia economist, responsible for macroeconomic research coverage for the region.

Both Kuijs and Tanuwidjaja will be reporting to Sanjay Mathur, RBS’s head of economic research, Asia-Pacific ex-Japan.

Kuijs brings 18 years of experience in economic research, eight of which have been focused on China. He joined RBS from the Fung Global Institute, where he coordinated a research project on the evolving economic growth models of China and India. Prior to that, he held senior economist positions at MF Global in Hong Kong and the World Bank in Beijing, where he coordinated the bank’s macroeconomic work on China during 2004 to 2011.

Kuijs has published a variety of China research and started the well regarded World Bank China Quarterly Update.

Tanuwidjaja joins RBS from Malaysia's Maybank, where he was a senior FX strategist covering Asian currencies and macroeconomics. He has also published various research papers in academic publications, including a paper titled “Central bank credibility and monetary policy in Indonesia” in the Journal of Policy Modeling.