- Professor of Economics at China’s Peking University
- Expert in China’s economic development and prolific journalist/scholar
- Winner of 2009 Chinese Economic Sun Yefang Award
- Professor of Economics at China’s Peking University
- Expert in China’s economic development and prolific journalist/scholar
- Winner of 2009 Chinese Economic Sun Yefang Award
YAO Yang currently teaches as a Professor the China Center for Economic Research (CCER) and National School of Development (NSD) at Peking University, China. Yao also serves as the Director of CCER and Deputy Dean of NSD along with acting as Editor for the center’s journal, China Economic Quarterly. His research interests are focused around economic development of China into the future.
As a widely published author with hundreds of scholarly articles and analyses, he has served as the sole author on many books on institutional economics and economic development in China. Some publications include Ownership Transformation in China (co-editor, World Scientific, 20065), Globalization and Economic Growth in China (co-editor, World Scientific, 2006), and CSR and Competitiveness in China (co-author, Foreign Languages Press, 2009). As a prominent scholar in the field, Yao serves in the editorial boards of several domestic and international journals along with being a prolific writer for many popular magazines and newspapers including the Economist and the Financial Times.
Most notably, Yao was awarded the 2009 Sun Yefang Economics Award, China’s highest award for economics along with the 2008 Pu Shan Award in International Economics and the 2008 Zhang Peigang Award in Developmental Economics.
