Huw van Steenis (born 27 September 1969) is a British financier and vice chair at management consultancy firm Oliver Wyman.

[7] In 2004, he coined the term the "Asset Management Barbell",[8][9][10] "which predicted that the bulk of assets would be invested in low-cost passive or index-hugging products such as ETFs, with a small but significant amount in high margin"[11] and "high alpha products, with intensifying pressure on the middle ground of more conventional asset management"[12][13][14] In 2012, he coined the term "Balkanisation of Banking Markets",[15] to describe the breakdown in cross-border banking lending, as regulators looked to put up barriers to protect domestic markets and the policy challenge to rebuild a single market in lending within the Eurozone.

[31] In 2009, van Steenis was named "European Banker of the Quarter" for Q1 2009 by The Wall Street Journal's Financial News for his work on the banking crisis and policy response.

The judges describing him as "one of the most well regarded and influential voices commenting on issues facing the industry … who has helped to position the US bank as an authority on the European policy response to the crisis".

[34] He has won a number of forecasting awards including European "Stock Picker of the Year" for Banks and Financials in Reuter's Starmine twice.