Stephen Jen
Managing Director
Morgan Stanley

Stephen Jen is a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and serves as the Global Head of Currency Research for the firm.  He is based in London. 

Prior to joining the firm in October 1996, Stephen spent four years as an economist with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, D.C.  In addition, Stephen was actively involved in the design of the IMF’s framework to provide debt relief to highly indebted countries.  Stephen has also worked for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and the World Bank, and has been a lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Georgetown University School of Business.

Stephen holds a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with concentrations in International Economics and Monetary Economics.  He also earned a BSc in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of California at Irvine.