Prof. Yingyi Qian

Keynote Speakers in parallel Session:

Prof. Yingyi Qian
Dean, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University , P.R.China

Yingyi Qian is Dean of School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University.

Professor Qian has been a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley since 2001 and the Dean of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University since October 2006. Before joining the Berkeley faculty, he taught in the Department of Economics at Stanford University between 1990 and 1999 and in the Department of Economics at the University of Maryland between 1999 and 2001.

His main research areas include comparative economics, institutional economics, economics of transition, and the Chinese economy. He has published in top international economics journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of Economic Studies. He is co-editor of the Economics of Transition and on the boards of editors of China Economic Review and China Journal of Economics.

He is President of the Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools (AAPBS) and serves on the Board of Directors of Association of Advancing Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the Board of Dean¡¯s Advisors at Harvard Business School, and the External Advisory Board at KAIST Business School of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He is also an independent director of China Netcom Group Corporation (Hong Kong) and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Vtion Wireless Technology AG.