Jan Hatzius

Jan Hatzius is Chief Economist and Head of Global Investment Research. He is a member of the Management Committee and the Firmwide Client Franchise Committee. Prior to assuming his current role in 2020, Mr. Hatzius was Head of Global Economics and Markets Research. He joined Goldman Sachs in the Frankfurt office in 1997 and transferred to New York in 1999. He was named Managing Director in 2004 and Partner in 2008.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Mr. Hatzius was a research officer at the London School of Economics.

Mr. Hatzius is the only three-time winner of the Lawrence R. Klein Award (2009, 2011, and 2025), which has been awarded annually since 1981 to the economist with the most accurate US economic forecast over the prior four years. He is also the No. 1 ranked economist in the annual Institutional Investor Fixed Income survey in both the global and US Economics category. Mr. Hatzius or his team have held No. 1 positions in the II survey every year since 2012.