Jonathan Basile

Jonathan Basile is the head of business cycle research at AIG Global Economics and a global economist/strategist heading a team that monitors major developed and emerging market economies on a high frequency basis. His focus encompasses macroeconomics and financial markets and their linkages, with an eye for finding strategically important themes across asset classes. His team has important input that helps shape AIG Global Economics’ baseline forecasts used company-wide. He publishes internal research regularly for AIG Global Economics and plays an integral role supporting portfolio managers and the research team in AIG Investments. Jonathan has been an economist his entire 20-year career. Prior to joining AIG in 2014, he was with Credit Suisse for 13 years, DLJ for three years and HSBC for seven years. In those stays, he covered economies of the US, Canada, the UK and Japan. Jonathan received his B.A. in economics from Princeton University in 1991 and has been the ISM-New York Business Survey Chair since 2007.