Pan Gongsheng

Pan Gongsheng (; born July 8, 1963) is a Chinese economist and politician who is the current Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary and governor of the People's Bank of China (PBC). He served as the Director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange from 2016 to 2023. At the PBC, he has worked on the monetary policy of China.

Education Pan received his Ph.D. in economics from Renmin University of China. He did his post-doctoral research at Cambridge University and was a research fellow at Harvard University.

Career Commercial Banking Pan was Vice President of Agricultural Bank of China from 2008-2010. Prior to Agricultural Bank Pan worked at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in a number of positions.

He is also a member of the Academic Committee of the China Finance 40 Forum (CF40). In July 2023, he was appointed as the secretary of the People's Bank of China Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, succeeding Guo Shuqing.

In 2023, Pan was appointed as the Governor of the People's Bank of China. As central bank governor, he believed in a new formation of global currency order, with the renminbi competing in a multi-polar system. He also cited concerns about reliance on the US dollar.

In June 2025, he met with president of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, in Beijing to discuss cooperation on central banking.