Speaker profile

Simon Williams

Chief Economist, CEEMEA, Managing Director, Global Banking and Markets
HSBC Bank Plc

Simon Williams is HSBC’s Chief Economist for Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Simon joined HSBC in 2006 as chief economist for MENA in Dubai, returning to London in 2014 to lead the bank’s economics research on the CEEMEA region. He has 20 years' experience as a country analyst and emerging market economist.