Yingyi Qian

Yingyi Qian
International Advisory Board

Professor, Tsinghua University

Professor Qian was born in Beijing and graduated in mathematics from Tsinghua University.  He received Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and master’s degrees from Yale and Columbia.  He was on the economics faculties at Stanford University, University of Maryland and University of California, Berkeley.  He was the dean of School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University in 2006-2018.  

He is fellow of the Econometric Society and author of How Reform Worked in China: The Transition from Plan to Market (The MIT Press).