Professor Yong Wang is the Deputy Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago. His main research fields are economic growth, macro development, the economies of China and India, and new structural economics. He has published academic papers in the Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, among others, and has also authored eight books on new structural economics. Yong currently serves as Secretary General of the New Structural Economic Research Alliance, Consultant to the World Bank, Research Associate of the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States, and Vice Chairperson of China’s Development Economics Association.
He is the recipient of the First Prize for National Academic Research in Humanities and Social Sciences in Chinese Universities by the Ministry of Education of China (2020), the Inaugural Peikang Chang Young Scholar Award in Development Economics (2018), the China Young Economist Award (2017), the Franklin Best Teaching Award at HKUST (2014), and the Martin and Margaret Lee Prize in Price Theory at the University of Chicago (2004).