36th BABC Economic Forecast Luncheon Presented by HSBC (#AELunch2026)

SEAN RANDOLPH
President & CEO, Bay Area Council Economic Institute

 


Sean Randolph is President & CEO of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, a public-private partnership of business, labor, government and higher education that works to foster a competitive economy in California and the San Francisco Bay Area, including San Francisco, Oakland and Silicon Valley.

Dr. Randolph previously served as President & CEO of the Bay Area Economic Forum, which merged with the Bay Area Council in January 2008, and as director of international trade for the State of California, where he developed trade strategy and directed international business programs to stimulate exports and introduce California companies to overseas markets. Before service with the state, he was Managing Director of the RSR Pacific Group, an international business consulting firm specializing in Asia and Latin America, and before that served as International Director General of the Pacific Basin Economic Council, a 15-nation international organization of leading U.S., Asian and Latin American corporations.

His professional career includes extensive experience in the U.S. Government, including the U.S. Congress staff, and the White House staff. From 1981-85 he served in the U.S. State Department, as officer for Asia on the Policy Planning Staff, as Special Adviser for Policy in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and as Deputy/Ambassador-at Large for Pacific Basin affairs. From 1985-88 he served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs, managing nuclear non-proliferation, energy research, and global oil and gas issues.

Dr. Randolph holds a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center, a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts and Harvard Universities), a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, and studied at the London School of Economics.

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RYAN WANG
US Economist, HSBC



 

Ryan Wang is a US economist for HSBC, one of the world's largest banking and financial services organizations. He is part of a global team of over thirty economists based out of New York, London, Hong Kong, and other major financial centers.
 
Ryan is responsible for the Bank's view of the outlook for the US economy and has two decades of experience making projections for growth, inflation, and Federal Reserve policy. Ryan has also written about issues such as the US housing market, the outlook for the labor market, fiscal policy, state and local government finances, and trade policy developments.
 
Ryan meets regularly with HSBC’ss institutional client base, which includes central banks, money managers, hedge funds, and large corporations. According to Bloomberg, Ryan has consistently been one of the most accurate forecasters of key US economic variables such as inflation and unemployment. He has been with HSBC since 2001.

Other Panelist to be announced.