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Chong-En Bai
 Dean of School of Economics and Management
Mansfield Freeman Chair Professor, Department of Economics
Tsinghua University 
Chong-En Bai is the Dean of the School of Economics and Management and Mansfield Freeman Chair Professor of Economics at Tsinghua University. He is also the Director of the National Institute for Fiscal Studies of Tsinghua University. He earned his Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics and Economics from UCSD and Harvard University, respectively. His research interests include economic institutions, economic growth and development, public economics, and the Chinese economy. Read more>







Ruixue Jia
Associate Professor of Economics
UC San Diego

 
Ruixue Jia is an Associate Professor of Economics at UC San Diego where she focuses her research on the political economy, development economics, economic history and China. She uses organization theory to closely examine the incentives of politicians, particularly to understand how such incentives affect growth, the environment and workplace safety. She has researched what determines the selection of politicians in China and how the incentives for politicians affect pollution and coal mine accidents. Read more>




Hongbin Li
Co-Director, Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions

Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

Senior Fellow, the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

 
Hongbin Li is the Co-director of Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions, and a Senior Fellow of Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI). He obtained a PhD in economics from Stanford University in 2001 and joined the economics department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he became a full professor in 2007. He taught at Tsinghua University in Beijing from 2007 to 2016 and was C.V. Starr Chair Professor of Economics in the School of Economics and Management. He also founded and served as the executive associate director of the China Data Center. Read more>







Yao Amber Li
 Associate Professor of Economics
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 
Yao Amber Li’s research interests include technology transfer, innovation, quality upgrading, FDI, agglomeration, TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights), and in particular, heterogeneous firms in emerging economies, based on microeconomic evidence from developing countries, especially from China. She worked as a research fellow in Planning Research Institute, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (previously, Ministry of Information Industry) of China between 2003 and 2005. She has participated in a series of China’s national research projects. . Read more>






Ernest Liu
 Assistant Professor of Economics, Princeton University 
Ernest Liu is an Assistant Professor at the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton's Department of Economics. His research interests are in finance, networks, trade, growth, and macro-development.






Yi Lu
Professor of Economics
Tsinghua University
 
Yi Lu is a Professor of Economics at School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University. Before joined Tsinghua, he taught at University of Hong Kong as research assistant professor, and then National University of Singapore as assistant professor and tenured associate professor. He received BS in biology and MA in economics from Fudan University, and PhD in economics from University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on Chinese economy, including public finance, international trade, and economic development.  Read more>






Juanjuan Meng
Professor of Applied Economics Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
 
Juanjuan Meng is a professor of Department of Applied Economics at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from University of California San Diego. She is currently serving as the associate editor of Management Science.

Dr. Meng's current research interests include Behavior Economics and Behavior Finance. Her research has been published in American Economic Review, Management Science, Journal of Public Economics, International Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Juanjuan Meng has received financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China for The Outstanding and Excellent Young Scholar, National Natural Science Foundation of China (General project and youth project) and Beijing Higher Education Young Elite Teacher Project. Read more>






Albert Park
Special Advisor to the Director, HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies 


Head and Chair Professor of Economics, Chair Professor of Social Science, and Professor of Public Policy, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

 
Albert Park is a development and labor economist who is an expert on China’s economic development. He is Head and Chair Professor of Economics, Chair Professor of Social Science, and Professor of Public Policy at HKUST. Professor Park is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Bonn), the International Growth Centre (Oxford/LSE/DFID), and the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group (Chicago). His research and commentary has appeared in the Economist, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, Freakonomics, and NPR. Read more>




Gérard Roland
E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics
Professor of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
 
Gérard Roland joined the Berkeley faculty as a professor in 2001. He received his PhD from Universite Libre de Bruxelles in 1988 and taught there from 1988-2001. Professor Roland is also a CEPR research fellow, where he was program director between 1995 and 2006 as well as a NBER research associate. He served as editor of the Journal of Comparative Economics, and was an associate editor for several other journals. Read more>




Zheng Michael Song
Head of Department of Economics and Wei Lun Professor of Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Co-Director, The Chinese University of Hong Kong-Tsinghua University Joint Research Center for Chinese Economy 
Co-Director, The Chinese University of Hong Kong-Zhejiang University Joint Research Center for Digital Economy
 
Zheng (Michael) SONG is Wei Lun Professor of Economics and the Head of the Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), a Co-Director of CUHK-Tsinghua Joint Research Center for Chinese Economy, a Co-Director of CUHK-Zhejiang University Joint Research Center for Digital Economy and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University and Zhejiang University. He is a Senior Fellow of ABFER and a Fellow of Luohan Academy. His research focuses on Chinese economy and macroeconomics. His papers were published by leading academic journals including American Economic Review, Econometrica and Journal of Political Economy. He won Sunyefang Economic Science Award in 2013. Read more>




Heiwai Tang
Director, Asia Global Institute 
Victor and William Fung Professor in Economics, HKU Business School
 
Heiwai Tang is Director of the Asia Global Institute and Victor and William Fung Professor in Economics at the HKU Business School. Prior to HKU, he was tenured Associate Professor of International Economics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is also Research Fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the Center of Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESIfo) in Germany, and the Globalization and Economic Policy Center in the U.K. He has been a consultant to the World Bank, International Finance Corporation, United Nations, and Asian Development Bank, and held visiting positions at the IMF, Stanford University, MIT Sloan School of Management, Harvard University, and RIETI. He is on the editorial boards of Journal of International Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, and China Economic Review. Read more>




Daniel Yi Xu
Professor of Economics
Duke University
 
Daniel Yi Xu is a Professor of Economics at Duke University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics. He is also an associate editor of the Economic Journal, the Journal of Industrial Economics, the Journal of International Economics, Quantitative Economics, the Rand Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. Read more>




Xiaobo Zhang
Distinguished Chair Professor of Economics
National School of Development, Peking University
 
Xiaobo Zhang is a distinguished chair professor of economics at the National School of Development, Peking University in China, and senior research fellow of IFPRI. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. His research fields include agricultural economics, development economics, and Chinese economy. He is the Chief Editor of China Economic Review. He received Sun Yefang Prize for Economics Research in China (the most prestigious award in the field of economics in China) and Zhang Peigang Development Economics Outstanding Achievement Award (the highest award in the field of development economics). He is a co-PI of China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) survey and PI of Enterprise Survey for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in China (ESIEC). Read more>







Yifan Zhang
Professor of Economics
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
 
Yifan Zhang is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received B.A. and M.A. from Renmin University of China and Ph.D. from University of Pittsburgh. He worked at Lingnan University before joining CUHK in 2015. He is an external affiliate faculty of Cornell Institute for China Economic Research, and an associate editor of China Economic Review. He has been a consultant for the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia. 
 

Prof. Zhang’s research interests include international trade and economic development. His recent research has investigated the impacts of globalization forces such as trade and FDI on the performance of Chinese firms.
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Li-An Zhou
Associate Dean and Professor of Applied Economics
Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
 
Li-An Zhou is the Associate Dean and Professor of Applied Economics in Guanghua School of Management at Peking University. Professor Zhou received his BA and MA in economics from Peking University, and his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. He joined Guanghua as an Assistant Professor in 2002 and became a full Professor in 2010. His research interests include political economy, industrial organization, economic development, and Chinese economy. Read more>

	Chong-En Bai Dean of School of Economics and Management Mansfield Freeman Chair Professor, Department of Economics Tsinghua University Chong-En Bai is the Dean of the School of Economics and Management and Mansfield Freeman Chair Professor of Economics at Tsinghua University. He is also the Director of the National Institute for Fiscal Studies of Tsinghua University. He earned his Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics and Economics from UCSD and Harvard University, respectively. His research interests include economic institutions, economic growth and development, public economics, and the Chinese economy. Read more>
	Ruixue Jia Associate Professor of Economics UC San Diego Ruixue Jia is an Associate Professor of Economics at UC San Diego where she focuses her research on the political economy, development economics, economic history and China. She uses organization theory to closely examine the incentives of politicians, particularly to understand how such incentives affect growth, the environment and workplace safety. She has researched what determines the selection of politicians in China and how the incentives for politicians affect pollution and coal mine accidents. Read more>
	Hongbin Li Co-Director, Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Senior Fellow, the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Hongbin Li is the Co-director of Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions, and a Senior Fellow of Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI). He obtained a PhD in economics from Stanford University in 2001 and joined the economics department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he became a full professor in 2007. He taught at Tsinghua University in Beijing from 2007 to 2016 and was C.V. Starr Chair Professor of Economics in the School of Economics and Management. He also founded and served as the executive associate director of the China Data Center. Read more>
	Yao Amber Li Associate Professor of Economics The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Yao Amber Li’s research interests include technology transfer, innovation, quality upgrading, FDI, agglomeration, TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights), and in particular, heterogeneous firms in emerging economies, based on microeconomic evidence from developing countries, especially from China. She worked as a research fellow in Planning Research Institute, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (previously, Ministry of Information Industry) of China between 2003 and 2005. She has participated in a series of China’s national research projects. . Read more>
	Ernest Liu Assistant Professor of Economics, Princeton University Ernest Liu is an Assistant Professor at the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton's Department of Economics. His research interests are in finance, networks, trade, growth, and macro-development.
	Yi Lu Professor of Economics Tsinghua University Yi Lu is a Professor of Economics at School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University. Before joined Tsinghua, he taught at University of Hong Kong as research assistant professor, and then National University of Singapore as assistant professor and tenured associate professor. He received BS in biology and MA in economics from Fudan University, and PhD in economics from University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on Chinese economy, including public finance, international trade, and economic development. Read more>
	Juanjuan Meng Professor of Applied Economics Guanghua School of Management, Peking University Juanjuan Meng is a professor of Department of Applied Economics at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from University of California San Diego. She is currently serving as the associate editor of Management Science. Dr. Meng's current research interests include Behavior Economics and Behavior Finance. Her research has been published in American Economic Review, Management Science, Journal of Public Economics, International Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Juanjuan Meng has received financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China for The Outstanding and Excellent Young Scholar, National Natural Science Foundation of China (General project and youth project) and Beijing Higher Education Young Elite Teacher Project. Read more>
	Albert Park Special Advisor to the Director, HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies Head and Chair Professor of Economics, Chair Professor of Social Science, and Professor of Public Policy, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Albert Park is a development and labor economist who is an expert on China’s economic development. He is Head and Chair Professor of Economics, Chair Professor of Social Science, and Professor of Public Policy at HKUST. Professor Park is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Bonn), the International Growth Centre (Oxford/LSE/DFID), and the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group (Chicago). His research and commentary has appeared in the Economist, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, Freakonomics, and NPR. Read more>
	Gérard Roland E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics Professor of Political Science University of California, Berkeley Gérard Roland joined the Berkeley faculty as a professor in 2001. He received his PhD from Universite Libre de Bruxelles in 1988 and taught there from 1988-2001. Professor Roland is also a CEPR research fellow, where he was program director between 1995 and 2006 as well as a NBER research associate. He served as editor of the Journal of Comparative Economics, and was an associate editor for several other journals. Read more>
	Zheng Michael Song Head of Department of Economics and Wei Lun Professor of Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Co-Director, The Chinese University of Hong Kong-Tsinghua University Joint Research Center for Chinese Economy Co-Director, The Chinese University of Hong Kong-Zhejiang University Joint Research Center for Digital Economy Zheng (Michael) SONG is Wei Lun Professor of Economics and the Head of the Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), a Co-Director of CUHK-Tsinghua Joint Research Center for Chinese Economy, a Co-Director of CUHK-Zhejiang University Joint Research Center for Digital Economy and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University and Zhejiang University. He is a Senior Fellow of ABFER and a Fellow of Luohan Academy. His research focuses on Chinese economy and macroeconomics. His papers were published by leading academic journals including American Economic Review, Econometrica and Journal of Political Economy. He won Sunyefang Economic Science Award in 2013. Read more>
	Heiwai Tang Director, Asia Global Institute Victor and William Fung Professor in Economics, HKU Business School Heiwai Tang is Director of the Asia Global Institute and Victor and William Fung Professor in Economics at the HKU Business School. Prior to HKU, he was tenured Associate Professor of International Economics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is also Research Fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the Center of Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESIfo) in Germany, and the Globalization and Economic Policy Center in the U.K. He has been a consultant to the World Bank, International Finance Corporation, United Nations, and Asian Development Bank, and held visiting positions at the IMF, Stanford University, MIT Sloan School of Management, Harvard University, and RIETI. He is on the editorial boards of Journal of International Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, and China Economic Review. Read more>
	Daniel Yi Xu Professor of Economics Duke University Daniel Yi Xu is a Professor of Economics at Duke University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics. He is also an associate editor of the Economic Journal, the Journal of Industrial Economics, the Journal of International Economics, Quantitative Economics, the Rand Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. Read more>
	Xiaobo Zhang Distinguished Chair Professor of Economics National School of Development, Peking University Xiaobo Zhang is a distinguished chair professor of economics at the National School of Development, Peking University in China, and senior research fellow of IFPRI. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. His research fields include agricultural economics, development economics, and Chinese economy. He is the Chief Editor of China Economic Review. He received Sun Yefang Prize for Economics Research in China (the most prestigious award in the field of economics in China) and Zhang Peigang Development Economics Outstanding Achievement Award (the highest award in the field of development economics). He is a co-PI of China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) survey and PI of Enterprise Survey for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in China (ESIEC). Read more>
	Yifan Zhang Professor of Economics The Chinese University of Hong Kong Yifan Zhang is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received B.A. and M.A. from Renmin University of China and Ph.D. from University of Pittsburgh. He worked at Lingnan University before joining CUHK in 2015. He is an external affiliate faculty of Cornell Institute for China Economic Research, and an associate editor of China Economic Review. He has been a consultant for the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia. Prof. Zhang’s research interests include international trade and economic development. His recent research has investigated the impacts of globalization forces such as trade and FDI on the performance of Chinese firms. Read more>
	Li-An Zhou Associate Dean and Professor of Applied Economics Guanghua School of Management, Peking University Li-An Zhou is the Associate Dean and Professor of Applied Economics in Guanghua School of Management at Peking University. Professor Zhou received his BA and MA in economics from Peking University, and his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. He joined Guanghua as an Assistant Professor in 2002 and became a full Professor in 2010. His research interests include political economy, industrial organization, economic development, and Chinese economy. Read more>