Former Hong Kong exchange executive Ba Shusong reported out of public sight
Economist, professor and former HKEX executive Ba Shusong speaks at an event in Hong Kong on December 21, 2022.
Photo: Jelly Tse The former managing director and chief China economist of bourse operator Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), Ba Shusong, has not appeared in public recently and could not be contacted, according to two sources familiar with the situation.
Ba is important academic who frequently gave speeches at major conferences over the past decade on behalf of HKEX, speaking about Hong Kong’s role as a connector between mainland China and the world.
Mainland media outlets reported that Ba was missing, with speculation that he had been detained by authorities for an investigation.
The South China Morning Post tried to contact Ba on his mainland mobile phone, but the number was out of service, and an email to his Hong Kong University address did not yield a response.
Ba was no longer employed with the bourse operator, an HKEX spokesman said in response to an inquiry.
He was most recently a part-time adviser and left the company in late 2025, the spokesman said.
Ba delivered his last public speech at the China Conference 2025, hosted by HKEX in Shanghai on October 22.
The conference agenda, which listed Ba as managing director and chief China economist, said he was to give a speech on Hong Kong’s role as a “superconnector” supporting mainland companies in their global expansion plans and promoting the internationalisation of the yuan.
Ba, 57, was born in central China’s Hubei province.
He graduated with a bachelor of engineering degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1991, and gained a master’s in economics at the same university in 1994.
He received a PhD in economics in 1999 from the Central University of Finance and Economics.
He was appointed by HKEX in April 2015 to a newly created post as chief China economist of the bourse operator’s mainland division.
Ba joined Hong Kong University (HKU) Business School in February 2025 as a professor of practice in finance.
He was still listed as an HKU professor on the university’s website on Wednesday.
A view of the University of Hong Kong on February 28, 2026.
Photo: Dickson Lee In his HKU bio, he was listed as chief economist at the China Banking Association, chairman of the Peikang Chang Research Foundation of Development Economics and vice-president of the China Society of Macroeconomics.
He was also the vice-president of the China Association of Gerontol
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