Director - Eamonn White

Eamonn has over 16 years of experience in Government and central banking in the US, UK and Asia with a focus on financial stability and financial regulation, crisis management and solving Too-Big-To-Fail. He has a strong track record in the analysis, design and implementation of domestic & international bank regulatory frameworks, working with cross-border banks to restructuring their global bank operations and develop financial stability capacity within regulators.

Between 2016 and 2019, Eamonn was Head, Resolution Office at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA). Having led the establishment of the resolution authority within the HKMA, he was responsible for developing the domestic statutory and regulatory resolution regime in Hong Kong, leading resolution planning for banks in Hong Kong, and contributing to the international cross-border resolution policy framework, establishing the Loss Absorbing Capacity rules for banks in Hong Kong. 

Eamonn has also been a member of the Financial Stability Board Cross-Border Crisis Management (CBCM) groups for banks. He has lead resolution planning for Globally Systemic Important Banks (G-SIBs) and other systemic banks for nearly 10 years.

While a member of the Bank of England Resolution Directorate for 4 years, he led resolution planning for G-SIBs and contributed to UK and international resolution policy development. He was a senior policy advisor to the Chancellor of the Exchequer at HM Treasury (HMT) for 7 years on financial stability and corporate finance issues. At HMT he worked at the centre of the UK’s policy and strategic response to the financial crisis, both managing bank failure and the policy response to TBTF. In his early career, Eamonn was a diplomat in Washington DC covering EU foreign and trade policy.

Eamonn is a visiting lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics & Finance, teaching an MSc course on Regulating the Chinese Financial System.