Barclays appoints Sailesh Jha to director of Asian economic research

By Devika Patel

Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 21 - Barclays Capital announced it has appointed Sailesh Jha as a director of Asian economic research.

Based in Singapore, Jha will be a senior regional economist and lead the firm's coverage of macro-economic research on the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia. He will report to Peter Redward, Barclays' head of emerging Asia rates research.

"I am delighted to welcome Sailesh to Barclays Capital's Asian economics research team. With his extensive experience in both public and private sector Asia strategy and economics research, Sailesh will play an important role in further strengthening and differentiating our Asian macro-economic research offering. In addition to his country coverage responsibilities, we are looking for Sailesh to help enhance our non-Japan Asia thematic product," Redward said in a press release.

Jha joins Barclays from Credit Suisse, where he was a director and senior regional economist responsible for covering Southeast Asia and India. His background includes over 10 years' experience in Asia ex-Japan strategy and economic research at DBS Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the IMF and the World Bank. These roles spanned both the fixed income and equity markets.

Barclays also made two additional appointments to its Asian economics research team this month. Wai Ho Leong has been hired as associate director, regional economist, responsible for covering Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan, based in Singapore. He joined the firm from Singapore's Ministry of Trade & Industry, where he was a senior economist in their economics & strategy division.

Yan Zheng has been appointed as an economist, focused on helping further build out Barclays Capital's China coverage, based in Hong Kong.

Both Leong and Zheng report to Redward.

Barclays is the investment banking division of Barclays plc, a London-based bank.

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