In his publications he addresses topics as Research on the Strategic Problems in Economic and Social Development during the 11th Five-year Plan in China, Research on the Key Problems in Establishing and Perfecting a Socialist Market Economic System, The Strategic Problems in Economic and Social Development in Economic and Social Development during the 10th Five-year Plan in China and The Strategy of Chinese Economic and Societal Development in the Early 21st Century. His research focuses on development strategy and planning, macroeconomic policy, and regional economic policy.
Zhang Jun (张军)
Prof. Zhang Jun is Professor of Economics at Fudan University and serves the Director for China Center for Economic Studies (CCES) at Fudan University. He was educated in China, Britain and United States, respectively during 1981-1994. Since 1997, he has held visiting or lecturing fellowships at London School of Economics, Harvard University, Tokyo Metropolitan University and Kyungpook National University in Korea. He also teaches for EMBA programs at CEIBS and School of Business at Shanghai Jiaotong University. He is one of the leading economists in China, specializing in many areas of current economic development and growth in China. He has many publications both in Chinese and English, including papers published in Journal of Asian Economics, Journal of Chinese Economics and Business Studies, East Asian Review, etc. He is also a columnist, frequently writing for Project Syndicate, Financial Times, Economic Observer, etc. His views on China have been widely cited in mass media, including Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, South China Morning Post, BBC, PBS and etc.
Dr. Kent Deng
Dr. Kent G. Deng is a British lecturer living in London who holds the position of Reader in the Economic History Department of the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE), where he has worked since 1996. He is a member of the Asian Research Centre and has been Secretary of the History and Economic Development Group UK since 2000.
Kent was born in Beijing, China, and educated in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; he also studied economic history in La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia under the eminent economic historian Eric L. Jones. Kent Deng's Ph.D. thesis went on to win "Best Thesis on Pre-19th Century Economic History" from the International Economic History Society at the XIth International Economic History Congress, Milan, 1994.
Kent played on the La Trobe volleyball team and earned a Mandarin-English professional translation qualification. He was the founding Mandarin instructor at La Trobe's Language Centre, where he also worked as a residential tutor. The next three years saw Kent as a journalist at Radio Australia.
From 1991 to 1993 he held the post of lecturer in Economic History at Flinders University of South Australia, and from there he went on to become senior lecturer in Economic History at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has published widely in the field of Chinese maritime history and pre-modern trade. His current research concerns the economic history of South-East Asia, focussing on the comparison between China and the West in pre-modern and early modern history and the economic role of the Chinese peasantry.
His published books include:
- The Chinese Premodern Economy: Structural Equilibrium and Capitalist Sterility. 1999
- Maritime Sector, Institutions and Sea Power of Premodern China. 1999.
- Chinese Maritime Activities and Socioeconomic Development, c. 2100 B.C. - 1900 A.D. 1997
- Development Versus Stagnation: Technological Continuity and Agricultural Progress in Pre-modern China. 1993
Prof. Danny Quah
Danny Quah is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science and is currently the Head of Department of Economics at the same school. His work includes important contributions to the fields of Economic Growth, Development Economics, Monetary Economics, Macro-Econometrics, and more recently the Weightless Economy.
Quah obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University under Thomas Sargent. He received his A.B. from Princeton University. His previous work experience includes stints at MIT, Harvard, and the University of Minnesota.
Among his most cited works are his paper on Vector Autoregressions with Olivier Blanchard , his paper on the convergence of Twin Peaked income distributions, and his work as agraduate student on the appendix to the famous Monetarist paper, "Some Unpleasant Monetarist Arithmetic", a paper that is considered to be a significant contribution to the field of Monetary Economics.
Dr. Paul Sheng
Paul Sheng is a partner in McKinsey’s London office and leader of its European Petroleum practice. Since joining McKinsey in 1998, Paul has served a number of energy clients (Majors, National Oil Companies, E&P Independents, Oilfield Services, and Private Equity) on business strategy, organisation and operations. Prior to McKinsey, Paul was Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley where he taught manufacturing and product design from 1991 to 2000. He also served as Faculty Mechanical Engineer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Senior Project Engineer within the Advanced Manufacturing Staff of General Motors Corp.
Paul received his S.B., S.M. and PhD degrees (all in Mechanical Engineering) from MIT.
Mr Daniel R Pearson
Daniel R. Pearson, a Republican of Minnesota, is the Vice Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission.
Vice Chairman Pearson was nominated to the U.S. International Trade Commission by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 21, 2004, for the term ending June 16, 2011. He began serving as a Commissioner on October 8, 2003, under a recess appointment. He served as Chairman for the term June 17, 2006, through June 16, 2008. President Bush designated him Vice Chairman for the term June 17, 2008, through June 16, 2010.
Daniel R. Pearson, a Republican of Minnesota, is the Vice Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission.
Vice Chairman Pearson was nominated to the U.S. International Trade Commission by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 21, 2004, for the term ending June 16, 2011. He began serving as a Commissioner on October 8, 2003, under a recess appointment. He served as Chairman for the term June 17, 2006, through June 16, 2008. President Bush designated him Vice Chairman for the term June 17, 2008, through June 16, 2010.
Dr. Bingqin Li
Dr. Bingqin Li is a lecturer in Social Policy at London School of Economics. She is also a research associate of CASE (The Centre for Analyses of Social Exclusion) at LSE. In the past five years, she has collaborated closely with researchers from China, Korea, Japan, India and the United States to examine the social exclusion faced by rural to urban migrants, long term unemployed people and informally employed people. Her research work has covered coastal and inland cities. She has been lecturing on International Housing and Social Economics. She has been given talks in universities in China and Japan regarding issues related to urban social exclusion.
Professor Athar Hussain
Professor Athar Hussain is director of the Asia Research Centre, LSE. His research interests include Asia; China; economic transformation; education; enterprise reform; financial crisis; financial sector; foreign relations; Hong Kong; India; international economic relations; market economy; policy making; public finances; regional inequality; regional integration; social security; social trends; Taiwan.
Dr. Qin Fei
Dr Fei Qin is a Lecturer in Management at LSE. Her research concerns the migration of knowledge workers and entrepreneurship. She also works on labour standards and work organization in global supply chains. She has a Ph.D. in Management from the Sloan School of Management of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was a Phelan Fellow at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva.
Prof. Peter Nolan
Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management
Chair of the University of Cambridge's Development Studies Committee
Peter Nolan is Director of the Chinese Big Business Programme (CBBP) at Judge Business School, which organises regular meetings involving leading Chinese and international firms. The meetings are based on fieldwork conducted by Professor Nolan and his research team, both in China's leading indigenous firms and in many of the world's largest corporations.
Gabriel Stein
In 1981 he worked in the Israeli Ministry of Finance. From 1982 to 1991 he ran his own economics and public affairs consultancy, Stein Brothers. He joined Lombard Street Research in 1991 and together with Brian Reading set up the International Service. He became a director in 1995.
A euro-sceptic, Stein calculates 'Tax Freedom Day' for the Adam Smith Institute, and is on the advisory council of the Tax Payers Alliance.
