Goldman Sachs’s Hatzius, Wilson to Run Economics After O’Neill

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Wall Street’s most profitable investment bank, promoted Jan Hatzius and Dominic Wilson to oversee its global economics research division, succeeding Jim O’Neill.

Hatzius, 42, was named chief economist and Wilson chief markets economist, according to an internal memo dated Jan. 12 and obtained by Bloomberg News. Both will run economics, commodities and strategies research in the Americas, with Jeff Currie and Peter Oppenheimer responsible for Europe, according to the memo from Steven H. Strongin, global head of investment research. Sophie Bullock, a London-based spokeswoman for the bank, declined to comment.