Khoon is the Head of Asia Research for ANZ. He oversees and co-ordinates the Asia economics and strategy research functions in Singapore. His particular area of focus is on Asian macro and currencies. Prior to the pandemic, Khoon actively travelled to market ANZ’s views to investor clients, such as central banks, hedge funds and real money; as well as corporate clients. Those meetings are all done virtually now. He is often quoted in the business media and makes regular appearances on radio and television.

ANZ’s Asia research team have been ranked in the top two for FX Research and Market Coverage as voted by financial institutions in the AsiaMoney FX Poll between 2012 and 2016, the last year that the survey was conducted. ANZ was also ranked second for best regional team for Asian macroeconomic research in the AsiaMoney Fixed Income Poll 2016, and ranked first in the KangaNews Fixed-Income Research Polls between 2014 and 2018, and again in 2020 and 2021 for best research on Asian markets. ANZ was the top EM Asia FX forecaster in 2015 and 2016 as ranked by Reuters.

Khoon has over 20 years of experience working in various economic and strategy roles across both the public and private sectors. Graduating with a Master of Commerce (Hons) degree majoring in International Economics from the University of Auckland, Khoon was the Manager in charge of the New Zealand Treasury's Macroeconomic Forecasting Team where he was responsible for producing the official government forecasts that underpin the Budget and key policy decisions. He also served as an Economic Adviser at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.

He provides analysis on financial markets and macroeconomic developments in local and foreign markets. He held the same position at Equitable PCI Bank’s Treasury Department from 1998 to 2002. His prior experience includes working as strategist, analyst, equities dealer and portfolio manager in both money management and institutional equity brokerage with DBS Securities and ACE Securities.

Jonas has been educating investors in trading strategies & corporate governance, having worked in financial markets for more than 25 years. He has delivered numerous lectures in the field of forecasting, investments and corporate governance here and abroad and regularly provides economic commentaries in the Asian Wall Street Journal and is a regular commentator on
economic and financial markets on ANC, Bloomberg, and CNN Philippines. FocusEconomics ranked him as the #1 Forex Forecaster for the Philippines for 2018. In 2016, FocusEconomics ranked him as the #1 Current Account forecaster for the Philippines for 2015. He is also a lecturer of Ateneo BAP’s treasury certification program. Recently, he obtained his Certified Techincal Analyst from the Society of Technical Analysts, an international organization.

He holds a bachelor's degree in Management of Financial Institutions from the De La Salle University (1992). In 1996, he finished the Asian Securities Executive Program at the Asian Institute of Management (Manila)