About Kelvin Lam

Kelvin Lam was a Greater China economist at HSBC Global Markets. Before joining HSBC, he worked as part of the economics team covering Asian economies at Citigroup Global Markets in Hong Kong. Prior to his return to Hong Kong in 2015, he was a UK economist at Santander in London. His ties with property go back to his employment at Investment Property Databank (now part of MSCI Inc.) where he first became a UK economist. In 2019, he was elected as Hong Kong district councillor for the Southern district. Kelvin is now an independent economist based in London. Kelvin graduated from the University of Southampton where he studied economics and finance. He also holds an MSc degree in economics from the University of York and an MSc in management from the London School of Economics and Political Science.