China as a Global Economic Power
SPEAKER BIOS
JIANMING CAO
Jianming Cao is professor and executive vice president at East China University of Politics and Law. He is also a senior consultant to the Shanghai Municipal Government, executive director of the China International Laws Society and executive vice secretary general of the Shanghai Society of International Laws Studies.
Cao is the author of several books including, Introduction to International Laws and International Product Liability Law. He has been honored as one of the 10 most distinguished youths and young jurists of China.
JAMES GWARTEY
James Gwartney is professor of economics and policy sciences at Florida State University, where he has taught since 1969. His doctoral degree in economics is from the University of Washington. Along with Richard Stroup of Montana State University, he is the author of Economics: Private and Public Choice, (Harcourt Brace). This text, now in its 8th edition, has been used by more than 1 million students during the last two decades. He and Professor Stroup are also coauthors of what Everyone Should Know About Economics and Prosperity, (1993), a book is designed for the interested lay reader of economics. The English version of this book has already been translated into 14 foreign languages.
Dr. Gwartney's recent research has focused on the measurement of economic freedom. His most recent book, Economic Freedom of the World: 1997 Annual Report, (coauthored with Robert Lawson), develops an index of economic freedom for 115 countries. This book was copublished by a network of institutes in 47 countries. He has traveled extensively throughout Europe, the former Soviet Union and Latin America. During 1993-94, Dr. Gwartney was a visiting professor of Economics at Central European University in Prague, Czech Republic.
He has published in the leading journals of professional economics, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Cato Journal, and Southern Economic Journal. His popular writings on economic topics have appeared in many newspapers including the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Dr. Gwartney has also testified on economic policy before various Congressional Committees.
LIU JI
Liu Ji is vice president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is also research director the National Commission of Science & Technology at the Shanghai Oriental Research Institute. Since graduating from Tsinghua University with a degree in mechanical engineering, he has been engaged in the study of scientific and technology policies, as well as economic development.
WU JIE
Wu Jie is vice chairman of the State Commission for Restructuring the Economic Systems. His major academic works are: "Systems Dialectics", "Comprehensive Management Theory","On Deng Xiao Ping Thought","Urban Management", and "Systematic Dialectical Thinking and Scientific Management".
He has served as honorary chairman of the National Society for Research on Systems Science, as well as honorary council member of the Chinese Mayors Association. Jie studied at Beijing Foreign Languages Institute and at the Leningrad Chemical Engineering Institute.
NICHOLAS R. LARDY
Nicholas R. Lardy is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. He received a B.A. in economics from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. Lardy’s current research focuses on China’s Unfinished Economic Transition.
Lardy was awarded a research fellowship at the American Council of Learned Societies and Social Science Research Council from 1989-1990. He sits on the editorial board of The China Quarterly, Journal of Asian Business and China Economic Review. Lardy’s work has appeared in various scholarly journals.
WILLIAM J. McGURN
William J. McGurn is senior editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review. He was formerly Washington bureau chief for National Review and deputy editorial page editor for the Asian Wall Street Journal. He is author of Perfidious Albion: The Abandonment of Hong Kong 1997, and his articles have appeared in a range of publications including the Spectator, the Weekly Standard, the New Republic, Esquire, Reason, and Slate.
JOSEPH Y. W. PANG
Joseph Y. W. Pang is executive director and deputy chief executive at The Bank of East Asia, Ltd., in Hong Kong. Pang is chairman of the Banking Training Board of the Vocational Training Council, a member of the Board of Hong Kong Industrial Technology Centre Corporation, and is a member of several other committees.
Pang played a key role in the formation of Trilease International Limited, a leasing joint venture between The Bank of China, Societe Generale and The Bank of East Asia, Ltd. He also supervised the creation of East Asia Aetna Insurance Company (Bermuda) Ltd., a joint venture between Aetna International Inc. of the United States and The Bank of East Asia, Ltd. He holds degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
KLAUS ROHLAND
Klaus Rohland is division chief, country operations division, China and Mongolia department, The World Bank.
REN RONG XIANG
Ren Rong Xiang is the deputy director of the department of policy and legal affairs at the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, as well as the director of the executive office of the Shanghai Working Conference of Intellectual Property Right. Xiang is responsible for drafting science and technology policies that have been adopted by the Shanghai People’s Congress.
He has degrees from the Shanghai Foreign Language Institute and the Shanghai Administrative Cadre Institute of Politics.
ZHANG SHU-GUANG
Zhang Shu-Guang is a senior fellow and professor at the Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is chairman of the academic committee at Unirule Institute. He is a two-time recipient of the Sun Ye-fang Prize, for his economic theses on the Chinese economy.
Shu-Guang is the author of a number of books, including, Individual Rights and State Power. He holds degrees from North-west University in Xi’an and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Bejing.
CHARLES WOLF, JR.
Charles Wolf, Jr., is dean of the RAND Graduate School, senior economic adviser and corporate fellow in international economics at RAND. He received his B.S. and Ph.D degrees in economics from Harvard, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. From 1967 until June 1981, Dr. Wolf was head of RAND's Economics Department, and thereafter was director of research in international economies.
Dr. Wolf is a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a director of Fundamental Investors Fund, Inc., American Capital Fund, Inc., Capital Income Builder Fund, Inc., and Capital World Growth and Income Fund, Inc. He is a member of the advisory hoards of the Carnegie Mellon Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, the UCLA Clinical Scholars Program, and the RAND-UCLA Center for Health Policy Studies. He is also a member of the American Economic Association, the Econometric Society, the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), and the Editorial Board of Advisors for The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis. Dr. Wolf has served with the Department of State, and has taught at Cornell, the University of California at Berkeley, and UCLA. In 1976 he was a visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. From 1986 to 1988 he was a consultant to the Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy.
Dr. Wolf s research at RAND has centered on international economic policy, economic development, defense policy, and various aspects of the relationships between international economic and national security issues. He has written numerous articles and books on economics, defense, and international affairs, including Economic Instruments, Military Instruments, and National Power, (1994); and, Long-Term Economic and Military Trends, 1994-2015: The United States and Asia, co-authored (1995).
KATE XIAO ZHOU
Kate Xiao Zhou is a professor in the political science department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Zhou teaches comparative politics, the political economy of East Asia and Chinese politics. She is the author of How The Farmers Changed China, Westview Press (1996). Zhou received her B.A. from Wuhan University in China, M.S. from Texas A&M University and a Ph.D. in political science from Princeton University.
MINGDE YU
Mingde Yu works at the China Center for Economic Research at the Peking University. Yu’s specialized fields are labor economics and development. Yu has recently been involved with researching grain production and pension reforms in China. Yu received a B.A. from Jiangxi Institute of Finance and Economics and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.