Alicia Garcia Herrero is a Spanish economist and academic who has been the chief economist for Asia-Pacific at French investment bank Natixis since June 2015. Beyond her work, she is an academic and has worked in Bruegel, a Think Tank based in Brussels. She is an adjunct professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a Senior Fellow at Bruegel, and non-resident Research Fellow at Real Instituto Elcano. Alicia is also a Member of the Advisory Board of Berlin-based think tank on China, MERICS.