Fan Gang (; born in 1953) is one of China's most prominent economists and one of China's most active reform advocates. He is currently based in Beijing, serving as a professor at the

Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences For the succeeding university, please see University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences The Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences ( GSCASS, ) is a public graduate school in Beijing, and one of the first two graduate schools (wit ...

(CASS) and at the Peking University HSBC Business School, as well as the director of China's National Economic Research Institute (NERI). He is also the Secretary-General of the China Reform Foundation.

Biography

Dr. Fan serves as an advisor to numerous organizations, including the Monetary Policy Committee of the

People's Bank of China The People's Bank of China (officially PBC or informally PBOC; ) is the central bank of the People's Republic of China, responsible for carrying out monetary policy and regulation of financial institutions in mainland China, as determined by ...

. He is a well-respected expert in the macroeconomics of long-term development, international trade and currency, foreign relations and China's regional integration within Asia. He is most renowned for addressing such topics as China's financial risk and financial systems reform, foreign exchange regimes and revaluation, China's economic reform, and globalization.

Education

Dr. Fan Gang graduated from the Economics Department at

Hebei University Hebei University () is a public comprehensive university in Baoding, Hebei Province, China. The university has an estimated student population of 33,000, including 6,100 full-time postgraduates and 26,900 full-time undergraduates. History The un ...

with a political economics major in 1982. Fan then studied Western economics in the Economics Department of the

from 1982 to 1985. He subsequently spent two years as a visiting fellow at

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and the US

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from 1985 to 1987 and received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1988.

Publications

Dr. Fan has written over 100 academic papers, over 200 articles for magazines and newspapers worldwide along with eight books on macroeconomics and the economics of transition. He now regularly writes a monthly series called "Enter the Dragon" exclusively for the public-benefit corporation

Project Syndicate Project Syndicate is an international media organization that publishes and syndicates commentary and analysis on a variety of global topics. All opinion pieces are published on the ''Project Syndicate'' website, but are also distributed to a wi ...

. In "Enter the Dragon," Dr. Fan examines the trends that are shaping China’s economy – and spells out what they mean for the rest of the world.

Notable Positions and Achievements

Present

*Director, National Economic Research Institute *Secretary-General, China Reform Foundation *President,

China Development Institute China Development Institute (CDI) is a China-based think tank headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, bordering Hong Kong. It was founded in 1989 to support the Chinese economic reform. CDI is also tasked with expanding international academic exchang ...

*Professor,

*Professor, Peking University HSBC Business School *Member, Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security of China *Member, Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Center for Monetary Policy *Member, Monetary Policy Committee of the

*Advisor, State Foreign Exchange Administration of China *International Advisor, Center for International Development, Harvard University *Non-Executive Director,

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Company of China, Ltd. *Fellow of the

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(since 1994) *Fellow of the Chinese Economist Society (USA; since 1993) *Consultant to the

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, the

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(UNDP), the

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(ESCAP), and to the

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(OECD)

2008

*Dr. Fan Gang ranked 33rd in the "World's Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by both ''Foreign Policy'' and ''Prospect'' magazines.

1995

*Dr Fan Gang awarded 'Global Leader for Tomorrow' by the

in Davos.

References

External links

www.neri.org.cn Fan Gang's profile

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