Fan Gang

Fan Gang (simplified Chinese: 樊纲; traditional Chinese: 樊綱; pinyin: Fán Gāng; born in 1953) is one of China's most prominent economists and one of China's most active reform advocates.[1] He is currently based in Beijing, serving as a professor at the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and at the Peking University HSBC Business School, as well as the director of China's National Economic Research Institute (NERI).[2] He is also the Secretary-General of the China Reform Foundation.[3]

In this Chinese name, the family name is Fan.
Fan Gang during a conference in Warsaw, Poland.

Biography

Dr. Fan serves as an advisor to numerous organizations, including the Monetary Policy Committee of the People's Bank of China. 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.[4] 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 with a political economics major in 1982. Fan then studied Western economics in the Economics Department of the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences from 1982 to 1985. He subsequently spent two years as a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and the US National Bureau of Economic Research from 1985 to 1987 and received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1988.[5]

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"[6] exclusively for the public-benefit corporation Project Syndicate. 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 [7]

Present

2008
  • Dr. Fan Gang ranked 33rd in the "World's Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by both Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines.[10][11]

1995

See also

References
  1. http://www.insightbureau.com/FanGang.html
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-12-03. Retrieved 2010-04-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. http://www.insightbureau.com/FanGang.html
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2012-12-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. http://www.project-syndicate.org/series/dragonomics/long_description
  7. http://www.insightbureau.com/FanGang.html
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-12-03. Retrieved 2010-04-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-09-30. Retrieved 2009-12-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. https://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2008/05/14/top_100_public_intellectuals
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