Viewpoints by Megan E. Greene, Global Chief Economist at John Hancock Asset Management

Megan is global chief economist at John Hancock Asset Management, responsible for forecasting global macroeconomic and financial trends as well as analyzing the potential opportunities and impacts in support of the firm’s investment teams around the world. Previously, Megan ran her own London-based economics consulting practice, Maverick Intelligence, serving clients who leveraged her analysis of economic, political, policy and social developments and the impact these were likely to have on the global economy. Prior to that, she was director of European Economics at Roubini Global Economics and the euro crisis expert at the Economist Intelligence Unit. Megan is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) and serves on the advisory board of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard’s Kennedy School and Econofact. She is also on the external advisory board of the Irish government’s Public Budget Office, which offers consulting on all fiscal issues, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in Political Economy from Princeton University and an M.Sc. in European Politics from Oxford University, Nuffield College.