Kenneth S. Chan, Professor emeritus, McMaster University. He was the Head and Professor at the Department of Economics and Finance, City University of Hong Kong. His research is in the area of international economics, with numerous publications in leading journals. He is the Editor of the Pacific Economic Review, and sits on many journal editorial boards.
Gregory C. Chow is the 1913 Professor of Political Economy, emeritus, at Princeton. He was Director of the Economic Research Program at Princeton, now named the Gregory C. Chow Econometric Research Program. He advised top leaders of Taiwan and China and introduced economics education in China. Author of 16 books and over 200 articles, he is a columnist for three major newspapers in China, one in Hong Kong and one in Taiwan. A recipient of honorary degrees from Zhongshan University, Lingnan University, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, he is a member of the American Philosophical Society and of Academia Sinica, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Statistical Association.
Jacques deLisle is Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center for East Asian Studies, and Deputy Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania. His scholarship focuses on domestic legal reform in China, the roles of law in addressing crises in China, and China’s engagement with the international legal order.
Fan Shitao is a Lecturer at Beijing Normal University. He primarily researches the history of the Chinese economy. His recent papers include “Inclusive Institutions, Extractive Institutions and Sustainability of Prosperity” and “How Had the Cultural Revolution been Started?”.
Richard B. Freeman holds the Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University and is Faculty Co-Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School. He directs the Science and Engineering Workforce Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science.
K. C. Fung is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research interests include international economics and Asian economies. He was a senior economist in the Clinton Administration White House Council of Economic Advisers. His most recent book is Sino-Latin American Economic Relations (2012).
Kai Guo is Director at the People’s Bank of China. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and an MA in economics from Peking University. His area of research includes international finance, macroeconomics, development economics (with an emphasis on the Chinese economy), and economic growth.
Jikun Huang is the Founder and Director of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor of the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research. He is also Vice President of the Chinese Association of Agricultural Economics and the Chinese Association of Agro-Technology Economics. He has served as a board member for the International Food & Agricultural Trade Policy Council, the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications, and African Agricultural Technology Foundation. Dr. Huang has a BS from Nanjing Agricultural University and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of the Philippines at Los Banos. His research covers a wide range of issues on China’s agricultural and rural development, including work on agricultural R&D policy, water resource economics, price and marketing, food consumption, poverty, trade policy, and climate change.
Yasheng Huang is a Professor of International Management and an Associate Dean at MIT Sloan School of Management. His research focuses on political economy and international business as related to China. Professor Huang has published in all the relative leading academic journals. Professor Huang has also published Inflation and Investment Controls in China (1996), FDI in China (1998), Selling China (2003, Chinese edition in 2005), Financial Reform in China (2005, co-edited with Tony Saich and Edward Steinfeld), and Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics (2008). He has also published in Chinese, including, The Transformation of Chinese Private Sector (2012), What Exactly Is the China Model? (winner of Blue Lion Prize for best book in 2011), and The Path of Big Enterprises (2010).
Jean-Pierre Laffargue has been Professor of Economics at the University of Paris since 1983 and is also a Research Fellow at CEPREMAP. His areas of research include macroeconomics, economic development, and computational economics. He holds a Ph.D. in statistics from the Faculté des sciences de Paris as well as a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Paris (Pantheon-Sorbonne). He has published articles in a wide variety of publications.
David Daokui Li is the Mansfield Freeman Chair Professor of Economics and the founding Dean of the Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua University, which is a fellowship program with a master’s degree curriculum. The program’s objective is to bring future global leaders to Tsinghua as a way to bridge the gap between China and the rest of the world. As a leading Chinese economist, Professor Li is active in policy advising and discussions. He served on China’s Monetary Policy Committee and was an external adviser to the IMF. He is a member of the CPPCC and a member of the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum based in Switzerland. Professor Li holds a BS and Ph.D. in economics from Tsinghua University and Harvard University, respectively.
Justin Yifu Lin is Professor and Honorary Dean, National School of Development at Peking University. He was the Chief Economist of the World Bank (2008–2012) and Founding Director of the China Centre for Economic Research at Peking University. His research areas are economic development and transition. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for Developing World.
Man-houng Lin, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, is working on a book titled ‘“Pacificbound: Taiwanese Merchants” Overseas Economic Activities, 1895–1945’. Her book, China Upside Down: Currency, Society and Ideologies, 1808–1856 (2006) links China’s change from the center of the East Asian order to its modern tragedy with the Latin American Independence Movement.
Dwight H. Perkins is the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, emeritus, at Harvard University and has been on the Harvard faculty since 1963. He is the author, co-author, or editor of 21 books and over 100 articles, many on China and other East Asian developing economies.
Carl Riskin is Distinguished Professor of Economics at Queens College, CUNY and Senior Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute of Columbia University. The author of China’s Political Economy and Inequality and Poverty in China in the Age of Globalization (with A. R. Khan), he works on social and human development issues.
Scott Rozelle holds the Helen Farnsworth Endowed Professorship at Stanford University and is Senior Fellow in the Food Security and Environment Program and the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He is the Director of the Rural Education Action Project. Dr. Rozelle’s research focuses almost exclusively on China and is concerned with three general themes: (a) agricultural policy, including the supply, demand, and trade in agricultural projects; (b) issues involving rural resources, especially the management of water, the forests, and cultivated land; (c) the economics of poverty – with an emphasis on the economics of education and health.
Ligang Song is Associate Professor at Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. His research focuses on international economics, development economics, and the Chinese economy. His publications include a monograph Changing Global Comparative Advantage (1996), and two co-authored books: Private Enterprise in China (2001); China’s Ownership Transformation: Process, Outcomes, Prospects (2005).
Sarah Y. Tong is Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute. She obtained her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at San Diego and held an academic position in the University of Hong Kong before joining NUS. Her research interests include international trade, foreign direct investment, economic reforms, and industrial restructuring. Her publications have appeared in international journals such as China: An International Journal, China and the World Economy, China Economic Review, Global Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, and Review of Development Economics.
Lynn T. White is Professor emeritus and Senior Research Scholar in the Woodrow Wilson School, Politics Department, and East Asian Studies Program at Princeton. His books include Political Booms, Unstately Power, Policies of Chaos, and Careers in Shanghai. He has published in the Journal of Asian Studies, American Political Science Review, Asian Survey, China Information, and elsewhere. He is currently writing about local politics in China and in the Philippines.
Peng Xizhe received his Ph.D. in population studies from London School of Economics and Political Sciences. He is a Professor of Population and Development Studies at Fudan University in China. Dr. Peng’s research activities cover a wide range of population-related issues. He is the author (or editor) of more than 18 books and 150 journal articles.
Gang Yi is the Administrator of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) and a Deputy Governor of the People’s Bank of China. He is also a Professor at the China Center for Economic Research (Peking University), which he co-founded in 1994. His research interests include money, banking, and the Chinese economy and his most recent book is On the Financial Reform of China (2009).
Yu Yongding is an academician and Senior Fellow in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). He was Director-General of the Institute of World Economics and Politics at CASS (1998–2009) and President of the China Society of World Economics (2003–2011). He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oxford.
Eden S. H. Yu is Dean of the Faculty of Business and Chair Professor of Economics, Chu Hai College of Higher Education in Hong Kong. He was Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, Louisiana State University, (Chair) Professor of Managerial Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Chair Professor of Economics, City University of Hong Kong. He has been a Visiting Professor at Renmin University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University, and National Taiwan University. He has published over 100 journal articles. A Founding Editor of the Pacific Economic Review (1995–2004) he is Editor of Asian Issues and Associate Editor of the World Economy. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Washington University at St Louis, USA.
Wu Jinglian is Senior Research Fellow at the Development Research Centre of the State Council of the PRC, and Bao Steel Chair Professor of Economics at CEIBS. His main research interests are comparative institutional analysis, and theory and policy of the economic reform of China. His books include Voice of Reform in China (2013), The Resumption of the Reform Agenda (2013), and Understanding and Interpreting Chinese Economic Reform (2005).
Zhong Xiang Zhang is a university Distinguished Professor at the School of Economics, Fudan University, China. He is Co-Editor of both Environmental Economics and Policy Studies and International Journal of Ecological Economics & Statistics, and serves on the editorial boards often other international journals. He has authored over 200 publications, and authored/edited 20 books and special issues of international journals. He is a Fellow of the Asia and the Pacific Policy Society.