Speaker Details
Fan Gang
Professor, National Economic Research Institute, China Reform Foundation
FAN Gang, Dr., Director of National Institute of Economic Research, and Chairman, China Reform Foundation (NERI-China), Beijing, China; Professor of Economics, Peking University and the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He got his Ph.D. in economics from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in 1988. He was visiting fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Harvard University, MA, USA, 1985-1987; Senior research fellow and deputy director of of Institute of Economics, CASS, 1992-1995; chief editor, Jingji Yianjiu (Economic Research Journal, monthly), 1992--1993; His publications include over 100 academic papers published in Chinese and English academic journals and 8 books on macroeconomics, and economics of transition. He is guest professor of number of universities and graduate schools domestic and abroad. He is also a consultant to various departments of Chinese Central government and provincial governments, currently as the academic member of Monetary Policy Committee of Peoples Bank of China (the Central Bank), and consultant to The World Bank, IMF, UNDP, and OECD. he received Docteur Honoris de Causa (Honorary Doctor) from University of Auvergne, France, in 2004, and listed as one of Worlds Top 100 Public Intellectuals jointly by Foreign Policy and Prospect, 2005 and 2008.
