Jesús Seade is the Vice-President of Lingnan University in Hong Kong and its Chair Professor of Economics.

A leading economic theorist and policy maker from a range of senior positions in international organizations, government, and academia, he became very young a Chair in Economics at Warwick University in the UK. His theoretical publications in public finance, industrial economics/market structure, and consumption theory (published in Econometrica, the Journal of Economic Theory, the Review of Economics Studies, the Economic Journal and other leading outlets) include core seminal references in the respective fields.

From Warwick Professor Seade moved to a string of diverse and senior positions in the world of policy, becoming Mexico’s Chief Negotiator to the Uruguay Round and Ambassador to GATT; founding Deputy Director-General of the WTO, and Senior Advisor at the IMF where he headed Fund-wide review-approval of all lending and policy work on the major crisis cases post-Asian meltdown, namely Brazil (for which he coordinated the G7 syndication of the then-largest IMF loan ever), Argentina and Turkey, following which he oversaw all IMF work on Standards and Codes (management and transparency practices in banking, fiscal and data) and managed the work on fiscal transparency. 

He joined Lingnan University in January 2007 as Chair Professor of Economics and became Vice-President in September 2008, directly managing (and launching reform processes in) research, postgraduates and human resources as well as other areas, while remaining active in both teaching and research, leading a work programme he created on International Financial Centres.