Dr. Frank FX Gong is a Managing Director of J.P.Morgan Securities (Asia Pacific) Limited, Chairman of China Diversified Industry Clients and Vice Chairman of China Investment Banking, helping to lead and drive J.P.Morgan China investment banking business.

Previously Frank was Head of China Research/Strategy and Chief Economist, leading J.P. Morgan's China research team covering equity research, market strategy, macro and FX/rates. Frank also co-headed J.P. Morgan EM Asia market research and strategy. At his previous leadership position in J.P.Morgan, Frank had been consecutively and repeatedly rated the No.1 China analyst and strategist by Institutional Investor and Asia Money. Frank’s team has been also ranked the No.1 China research team by Institutional Investor polls for four consecutive years.

Frank won the #1 position in the “Worldwide Chinese Financial Elites Award for Outstanding Influence”, at the “2010 Summit of Worldwide Chinese Financial Elites”. Dr. Gong is also the Honorable Professor of Peking University HSBC Business School.

Before his career at J.P.Morgan, Frank was the Chief Strategist and Co-Head of global currency and rates research at Bank of America. Frank was an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 95–97, where his duties included research and policy submissions to the FOMC.

Frank holds a Ph.D. in Financial Economics from Whar ton at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as an M.S. in Physics from Temple University in Philadelphia and two degrees from Peking University (an M.A. in Operation Research and Economics and a B.S. in Physics).