HKUST Business School
 
Prof. Justin Yifu LIN
Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, The World Bank
Former Professor, HKUST Business School
 
   

Prof. Justin Yifu Lin is the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, a position he has held since June 2008. In his current position, Prof. Lin guides the Bank’s intellectual leadership and plays a key role in shaping the economic research agenda of the institution.

Prior to joining the Bank, Prof. Lin served for 15 years as Founding Director and Professor of the China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University.

Prof. Lin received his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1986 and is the author of 18 books, including The China Miracle: Development Strategy and Economic Reform and Economic Development and Transition: Thought, Strategy, and Viability. He has published more than 100 articles in refereed international journals and collected volumes on history, development, and transition.

Prof. Lin was a deputy of China’s People’s Congress, Vice Chairman of Committee for Economic Affairs of Chinese People’s Political Consultation Conference and Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. He served on several national and international committees, leading groups, and councils on development policy, technology, and environment including: the United Nations Millennium Task Force on Hunger; the Eminent Persons Group of the Asian Development Bank; the National Committee on United States-China Relations; the Global Agenda Council on the International Monetary System; Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee; the Working Group on the future of the OECD and the Hong Kong-U.S. Business Council.

He was awarded the 1993 and 2001 Sun Yefang Prize (the highest honour for economists in China), the 1993 Policy Article Prize of Centre for International Food and Agricultural Policy at University of Minnesota, the 1997 Sir John Crawford Award of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, the 1999 Best Article Prize of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, the Citation Classic Award in 2000 (by the publisher of Social Science Citation Index, corresponding fellow of the British Academy, fellow of Academy of Sciences for Developing World, and honorary doctoral degrees from Universite D’Auvergne, Fordham University, Nottingham University and City University of Hong Kong. 


 
Prof. David Daokui LI
Director of the Center for China in the World Economy, Tsinghua University
Former Professor, HKUST Business School

   

Prof. David Daokui Li is currently the Mansfield Freeman Chair Professor and head of the Department of Finance of the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University.  He is also the Director of the Center for China in the World Economy (CCWE) at the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University.

Before joining Tsinghua, he had been on the faculty of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1999-2004) and the University of Michigan (1992-1999).  From 1997 to 1998, he was a National Fellow of Hoover Institution at Stanford University. 

Prof. Li holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and a B.E. from the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University, where he returned and assumed the current position in July 2004.

Prof. Li is active in public service.  He is currently a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China, a delegate to the Beijing People’s Congress and a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Committee (CPPCC).  He is now a member of the Global Agenda Councils of the World Economic Forum based in Davos, Switzerland. In 2006, Prof. Li was chosen by Wall Street Wire as a top ten most influential economist in China.  In 2010, he was awarded one of the ten Economic Men of the Year by CCTV.


 
Prof. YI Gang
Deputy Governor, The People's Bank of China
Administrator, State Administration of Foreign Exchange
Adjunct Professor, HKUST Business School
 
   

Prof. Yi Gang is currently Deputy Governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBC) and Administrator of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE). He began serving the PBC as Deputy Secretary-General of its Monetary Policy Committee in 1997, and was Secretary-General of the Committee in 2002-03. Prof. Yi became Director-General of PBC’s Monetary Policy Department in 2003. He took up the position of PBC’s Assistant Governor from 2004 to 2007, and has been its Deputy Governor since December 2007. In July 2009, Prof. Yi also became Administrator of SAFE.

Prof. Yi was born in 1958. He studied at the Department of Economics of Peking University from 1978 to 1980. From 1980 to 1986 he studied in the United States and obtained a BA degree in Business Administration from Hamline University and a Ph.D degree in Economics from the University of Illinois. He was an assistant and associate professor with tenure at Indiana University from 1986 to 1994. In 1994 he returned to China to join Peking University as its Professor and Ph.D Advisor in Economics.

Prof. Yi’s research interests cover China’s money, banking and financial markets, and econometrics. His publications include a number of articles in key international academic journals and books in English and Chinese.




 
Prof. K. C. CHAN, SBS, JP
Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, HKSAR Government
Former Dean, HKUST Business School
 
   

Prof. K. C. Chan was born in 1957. Before assuming the post of Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Prof. Chan was Dean of Business and Management of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Prior to joining the HKUST Business School in 1993, Prof. Chan had spent nine years teaching at Ohio State University in the U.S.A.

Prof. Chan received his bachelor's degree in economics from Wesleyan University and both his M.B.A. and Ph.D. in finance from the University of Chicago. He is specialized in assets pricing, evaluation of trading strategies and market efficiency and has published numerous articles on these topics.

Before joining the Government, Prof. Chan held a number of public service positions including Chairman of the Consumer Council; director of the Hong Kong Futures Exchange; member of the Commission on Strategic Development, Commission on Poverty, the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee, the Hang Seng Index Advisory Committee, and the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation. Prof. Chan is also former President of the Asian Finance Association and former President of Association of Asia Pacific Business Schools.