Appendix B

Biographies of Speakers and Planning Committee Members (as of May 2021)

NADIM AHMAD
(Member of the Planning Committee)

Nadim Ahmad is deputy director at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE), helping to drive momentum in the development of integrated policies that look holistically at people, places, and firms—promoting better policies for better lives, and resilient and sustainable economic growth. In his role, Mr. Ahmad provides intellectual leadership and quality control to ensure that OECD is at the forefront of policy thinking in the domains covered by CFE. Before joining CFE in 2020, he worked in OECD’s Statistics and Data Directorate, where he led international efforts to better account for globalization; entrepreneurship and business performance; and, in particular, the role of multinational enterprises and small- and medium-sized enterprises in global value chains. Prior to that he worked with OECD’s Directorate for Science Technology and Innovation, where he developed OECD’s first estimates of carbon dioxide emissions embodied in international trade. Prior to joining the OECD in 2000, Mr. Ahmad worked in the United Kingdom’s Office for National Statistics (1996–2000) and Ministry of Finance (1993–1996).

ÇAǦATAY BIRCAN

Çaǧatay Bircan is a senior research economist at the Office of the Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London. He conducts academic research and various types of policy work at the EBRD. He researches topics at the intersection of international economics, finance, and development. Currently, he is exploring topics on innovation,

knowledge work, and productivity in multinational firms and private equity. Dr. Bircan earned a B.A. in economics, mathematics, and German from Williams College, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.

NICHOLAS (NICK) BLOOM

Nicholas (Nick) Bloom is the William Eberle professor of economics at Stanford University, a senior fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy and Research, and codirector of the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on management practices and uncertainty. Previously, Dr. Bloom worked at the U.K. Treasury and McKinsey & Company. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of the Sloan Fellowship, the Bernacer Prize, the Frisch Medal, and a National Science Foundation Career Award. Dr. Bloom earned a B.A. from Cambridge University, an M.Phil. from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. from University College London.

MARIA BORGA

Maria Borga is deputy division chief in the Balance of Payments Division at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where she is playing a lead role in the update of the international statistical standards, including the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual. Prior to joining the IMF, she served as senior statistician at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), where she oversaw the implementation of OECD’s Benchmark Definition of Foreign Direct Investment, 4th edition (BD4). Before joining OECD, Dr. Borga served as assistant division chief for research and analysis in the Balance of Payments Division of the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), where she led research into improving BEA’s measures of banking, wholesale and retail trade, and insurance services to better capture trade in these services. She received a B.A. in economics and a B.S. in French from The Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in economics from Boston University.

JERONIMO CARBALLO

Jeronimo Carballo is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he has served since 2015. His primary research interest is international trade with a special emphasis on firms’ decisions under uncertainty, exploring trade cost using microdata, and the intersection between trade and labor markets. His research has been published in several journals such as the Journal of International Economics and Journal of Development Economics. Dr. Carballo earned a B.S. in economics from the National University of Cordonba, Argentina; an M.A. in economics from the National University of La Plata, Argentina; and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland.

DAVIN CHOR
(Member of the Planning Committee)

Davin Chor is an associate professor and globalization chair at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. His research interests are in international trade and political economy. As part of Dartmouth’s academic cluster on globalization, Dr. Chor studies the far-reaching repercussions of globalization on world markets, governments, trade, and society. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and presently serves as an associate editor at the Journal of International Economics and at the Review of International Economics. Dr. Chor completed his A.B. in economics summa cum laude from Harvard University in 2000. He also holds an A.M. in statistics and a Ph.D. in economics (2007) from Harvard University.

ALLISON DERRICK

Allison Derrick is a research economist at the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). She studies multinational enterprises and their role in the U.S. and global economies. Dr. Derrick’s main areas of research are intellectual property, research and development, and emerging technologies. She also studies the economics of blockchain technology and crypto assets, including the conceptual and practical challenges of measuring them in economic statistics. Dr. Derrick received her master’s and Ph.D. in agricultural and applied economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

XIANG DING

Xiang Ding is an assistant professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. His research lies at the intersection of international trade, technology, and policy. One strand of his research leverages microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau to uncover and estimate the aggregate implications of globalization, such as economies of scope from joint production, and structural transformation within U.S. firms. Dr. Ding’s research has been recognized by the World Trade Organization Essay Award for Young Economists. He received a Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard University and an A.B. in economics from Princeton University.

CLAUDIA DOBLINGER

Claudia Doblinger is an assistant professor of innovation and technology management at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), where she primarily works on clean-energy innovation and entrepreneurship. Her main focus is on understanding how political incentives affect the innovation and entrepreneurial activities of firms, especially in the context of clean-energy and transportation technologies. Dr. Doblinger’s research has been published in peer-reviewed

journals such as Nature Energy, Research Policy, and the Journal of Product Innovation Management. She has previously worked at the Harvard Kennedy School, the University of Regensburg (Germany), and a German energy company. Dr. Doblinger holds a Ph.D. in innovation and technology management.

JINGTING FAN

Jingting Fan is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at The Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on international trade and urban economics. One strand of his work is studying the impacts of multinational corporations (MNCs) on the income of countries, including investigating MNCs’ decisions on financing and carrying out R&D overseas. He also studies within-country spatial friction and its interaction with policies and economic shocks. Dr. Fan earned a B.S. in pure and applied mathematics and a B.A. in economics and finance, both from Tsinghua University, China, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland at College Park.

TERESA FORT

Teresa Fort is an associate professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. She conducts research in international trade and industrial organization. Currently, she analyzes how technology affects firm-level offshoring and production fragmentation decisions, and the impact of these decisions on domestic employment and innovation. Dr. Fort is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. She holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland.

KELLY SIMS GALLAGHER
(Member of the Planning Committee)

Kelly Sims Gallagher is academic dean and professor of energy and environmental policy at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. She directs the Climate Policy Lab and the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Fletcher. From June 2014 to September 2015 Dr. Sims Gallagher served in the Obama administration as a senior policy advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and as senior China advisor in the Special Envoy for Climate Change office at the U.S. Department of State. Her most recent book is Titans of the Climate with Xuan Xiaowei (MIT Press, 2019). Dr. Sims Gallagher earned an A.B. from Occidental College, and an M.A. in law and diplomacy and a Ph.D. from The Fletcher School at Tufts University.

ANNA GUMPERT

Anna Gumpert is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich). Her research focuses on strategic decisions of firms—in particular, decisions on globalization, organization, and innovation. Dr. Gumpert is a research affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and CESifo, Munich. She received her Ph.D. in economics from LMU Munich and was a visiting fellow at Harvard University and Yale University.

SUSAN HELPER
(Planning Committee Cochair)

Susan Helper is Frank Tracy Carlton professor of economics at Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. She served as chief economist of the U.S. Department of Commerce from 2013 to 2015, and as senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisors from 2012 to 2013. Her research focuses on how global supply chains affect regional development and innovation. Dr. Helper received her B.A. from Oberlin College and her Ph.D. from Harvard University.

JAMES R. HINES JR.

James Hines is Richard A. Musgrave collegiate professor of economics, L. Hart Wright collegiate professor of law, and research director of the Office of Tax Policy Research, all at the University of Michigan. He researches various aspects of taxation. Dr. Hines has also taught at Princeton University and Harvard University, and has held visiting appointments at Columbia University; the London School of Economics; the University of California, Berkeley; and Harvard Law School. In 2017 he received the National Tax Association’s Daniel M. Holland Medal for lifetime achievement in the study of public finance. Dr. Hines is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, research director of the International Tax Policy Forum, former coeditor of the American Economic Association’s Journal of Economic Perspectives, and a former economist in the U.S. Department of Commerce. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. from Harvard, all in economics.

THOMAS F. HOWELLS

Thomas F. Howells is chief of the Industry Economics Division at the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), where he oversees preparation of BEA’s industry economic accounts, including supply-use tables, statistics on gross domestic product by industry, and other industry products. These accounts provide a comprehensive picture of the performance of industries within the U.S. economy, including how these industries interact and contribute to economic

growth. In addition to work on these core industry statistics, Mr. Howells has led several other cross-cutting efforts, including international collaboration on statistics for trade in value added for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and North America regions, work on the integrated BEA/Bureau of Labor Statistics industry-level production account, and development of BEA’s outdoor-recreation satellite account. He has received various awards for his contributions to BEA’s accounts, including two U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medals. Mr. Howells holds a B.A. in economics from Brigham Young University and an M.A. in economics from George Mason University.

WOLFGANG KELLER
(Planning Committee Cochair)

Wolfgang Keller is professor of economics and director of the McGuire Center at the University of Colorado Boulder. His interests are in international trade and investment and economic development, especially the international diffusion of technological knowledge. In the past, Dr. Keller held visiting positions at Stanford, Princeton, and Brown Universities, and he has been a resident scholar at the International Monetary Fund’s Research Department, as well as an advisor to both the World Bank and the World Trade Organization. Since 2005, his research has been supported continuously by grants from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Keller is member of both the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and his research has been published in such journals as the American Economic Review and the Journal of Political Economy. He received his Diploma degree from the University of Freiburg and his Ph.D. from Yale University.

OSCAR LEMMERS

Oscar Lemmers works as a senior researcher at Statistics Netherlands. For the last 14 years, his work has included measuring globalization by developing new methods and data, and publishing insights about causes and effects related to this phenomenon. His publications have included short web articles, reports for policy makers, and publications in academic journals. Dr. Lemmers also contributes to measuring globalization by serving as chair of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development expert group on extended supply-use tables. This work combines the advantages of national accounts statistics (featuring internal consistency and relevance to macroeconomic totals, such as gross domestic product) with those of detailed business statistics to obtain new data and insights about the role of small- and medium-sized or multinational enterprises in global value chains. Dr. Lemmers holds a Ph.D. in mathematics.

GARY LYN

Gary Lyn is assistant professor of economics at Iowa State University. His current research is in international trade, economic geography, international migration, and the intersection of international trade and environmental economics. Dr. Lyn’s principal interests include understanding the effects of external economies of scale in production on the gains from trade and intercountry trade patterns; characterizing the equilibrium properties of within-country trade patterns and factor reallocation in the presence of these external economies; and estimating and quantifying the welfare effect of global warming and climate change, while fully accounting for intra- and intercountry spatial trade and migration linkages. He holds a B.Sc. in economics and an M.Sc. in economics and business from The University of the West Indies, and a Ph.D. in economics from The Pennsylvania State University.

EDUARDO MORALES
(Member of the Planning Committee)

Eduardo Morales is professor of economics at Princeton University, a former assistant professor of economics at Columbia University, and a former fellow in international economics at Princeton University. He researches such topics as innovation in the global firm, the segregation of urban consumption patterns, changes in export behavior, and the effects of international trade and technology on occupational inequality. Dr. Morales has received honors in teaching and scholarship from Harvard University and the Spanish Ministry of Education; he is associate editor of two economic journals. He received his B.A. in economics and law from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and his master’s degree and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

FRANCISCO MORIS

Francisco Moris is a senior analyst at the National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics. His research interests include methodological and empirical work on globalization measurement, intangibles in national economic accounts, and metadata quality. His work currently supports the incorporation of international property products in input-output, supply-use, and trade-in-value-added statistics in a joint project with the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Dr. Moris has worked on multiple interagency projects linking foreign direct investments, multinational enterprises, research and development (R&D), and services trade microdata. He represented the United States in a United Nations Statistical Commission Working Group on SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange) of the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators. Dr. Moris has published in the Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade and in two National Bureau of Economic Research books in the Studies in Income and Wealth series. He is a

member of the Academy of International Business and of the editorial review board for the Journal of International Business Policy. Dr. Moris holds a Ph.D. from George Washington University.

BRENT MOULTON

Brent Moulton is a senior economist at the International Monetary Fund. Previously he spent 19 years as associate director for national economic accounts at the Bureau of Economic Analysis, where he contributed to the 2008 update of the System of National Accounts; he also served for 13 years at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), most recently as chief of price and index-number research, where he was responsible for the research program to maintain accuracy of the BLS price index and consumer expenditure statistics. Dr. Moulton holds a B.A. and an M.S. in economics from Brigham Young University, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.

ANDREAS MOXNES
(Member of the Planning Committee)

Andreas Moxnes is professor of economics at the University of Oslo. Among his main research interests are the interaction between globalization and the behavior of firms, reallocations in product markets and productivity growth, and the microeconometrics of trade and multinational production. Prior to joining the University of Oslo, Dr. Moxnes was an assistant professor at Dartmouth College, an economist at the Norwegian Ministry of Finance, and a visiting professor at Princeton University for 2019–2020. He has published articles on networks and trade, international sourcing, and the geography of production networks. Dr. Moxnes is editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Economics and associate editor of The Journal of International Economics. He is on the editorial board of the Review of Economic Studies. Dr. Moxnes received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oslo.

GIACOMO ODDO

Giacomo Oddo is an economist in the Balance of Payments Division of the Bank of Italy, within the Directorate General for Economics, Statistics, and Research. He works on topics related to multinational firms, international trade, cross-border investment, and financial flows. Mr. Oddo was a visiting scholar at the Economics Department of Columbia University for 2015–2016. He holds master’s degrees in economics from the University of Pisa and from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies.

JUSTIN R. PIERCE
(Member of the Planning Committee)

Justin R. Pierce is principal economist with the Federal Reserve Board, a position he has held since 2016. Previously, he was senior economist and economist with the Federal Reserve in the Industrial Output section of the Division of Research and Statistics. Dr. Pierce’s expertise is in international trade and industrial organization, and he has contributed research on trade liberalization, the effects of tariffs on U.S. manufacturing, and the decline in manufacturing employment. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Georgetown University.

WILLIAM M. POWERS

William M. Powers is chief economist and director of the Office of Economics at the U.S. International Trade Commission. In this role he serves as the Commission’s chief economic adviser and directs economic analysis in the Commission’s fact-finding investigations for the U.S. Congress and President. He also leads antidumping and countervailing duty investigations. Dr. Powers is a leader in international efforts to better measure the economic impact of globalization, and was the U.S. chair for the recently completed Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Trade-in-Value-Added initiative. He has published on empirical trade topics including trade agreements, global value chains, rules of origin, and trade finance. During the global trade downturn of 2008–2009, Dr. Powers served in a 1-year position as a senior international economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) in both the Bush and Obama administrations. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.

REBECCA RILEY

Rebecca Riley is director of the U.K. Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) and professor of practice in economics at King’s Business School, King’s College London. She has written extensively on U.K. productivity performance and labor market policy. Ms. Riley is a fellow of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, where she led the productivity research group and the U.K. forecast team. She has been an external advisor to several government departments and public bodies, including the Department for Work and Pensions and the Office for National Statistics. Ms. Riley is a member of council of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, and a member of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Centre for Macroeconomics, as well as the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth.

JON SAMUELS

Jon Samuels is a senior research economist at the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and an associate at the Institute of Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. His research is focused on measuring productivity and the sources of economic growth, leading to the publication of the BEA/Bureau of Labor Statistics Integrated Industry production account, which presents information on the sources of U.S. economic growth from the bottom-up across industries. Previously, Dr. Samuels worked as a researcher for the Program on Technology and Economic Policy directed by Dale Jorgenson at Harvard University and was a junior economist in economic forecasting with Primark Decision Economics. He received a B.A. in economics from the University of Chicago, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from The Johns Hopkins University.

TIMOTHY J. STURGEON

Timothy J. Sturgeon is a senior researcher at the Industrial Performance Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the processes of global integration and digital transformation, with an emphasis on offshoring and outsourcing practices in the electronics, automotive, and services industries. Dr. Sturgeon’s work explores how evolving technologies and business models are altering linkages between industrialized and developing economies, and development experiences more broadly. His most recent book is Compressed Development: Time and Timing in Economic and Social Development, published by Oxford University Press in October 2020. Dr. Sturgeon has been a leader in the interdisciplinary field of global value chains (GVCs) for nearly 20 years, and he has contributed to the development of an assessment of the U.S. data resources available for the study of the international sourcing of services, a research program and classification based on the concept of business functions, and a complementary grouping of trade in services enabled by information and communications technologies. He has also developed a classification of final and intermediate goods in the electronics, motor vehicle, and textile-apparel industries. His work has been used by the World Bank to create a public-use dataset of GVC trade. Dr. Sturgeon has collaborated with the National Science Foundation, Eurostat, Statistics Denmark, and the United Nations Statistics Division, among others.

KAVITA SURANA

Kavita Surana is an assistant research professor at the Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland. Her research is focused on innovation in clean-energy technologies and the interactions between public policy and decision making in private industry to address global and local environmental challenges. Dr. Surana was previously a research associate and

postdoctoral fellow in the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She has worked with the World Bank, ICF International, and the French Alternative and Atomic Energies Commission (CEA), analyzing and advising on a range of issues related to innovation and energy. Dr. Surana holds a B.Sc. in physics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, India; an M.S. in energy storage and conversion materials from Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France; and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble (INP-Grenoble) and CEA.

HEIWAI TANG

Heiwai Tang is professor of economics, as well as associate director of the Asia Global Institute, the Institute for China and Global Development, and the Hong Kong Institute of Economics and Business Strategy at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Prior to joining HKU, he was tenured associate professor of international economics at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Tang is also affiliated with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (U.S.), CESIfo (Germany), the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (Germany), and the Globalization and Economic Policy Center (United Kingdom) as a research fellow. He has been a consultant to the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, the United Nations, and the Asian Development Bank; and he has held visiting positions at the International Monetary Fund, Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Harvard University. Dr. Tang is currently an associate editor of the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Comparative Economics, and the China Economic Review. He holds a B.S. in mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT.

CATHERINE THOMAS

Catherine Thomas is an associate professor of managerial economics and strategy at the London School of Economics. She is director of the International Trade Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance and a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Dr. Thomas was formerly an assistant professor of economics at Columbia Business School. Her research is focused on three aspects of international economic integration: (1) how firms engage in offshoring, (2) how firms make outsourcing decisions, and (3) the performance consequences of firms’ organisational structures. Dr. Thomas holds an M.A. in economics from the University of Edinburgh and an M.A. and Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard University.

SALLY THOMPSON
(Member of the Planning Committee)

Dr. Sarahelen “Sally” Thompson is former deputy director of the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), a position she held from 2016 until her retirement in 2018. As deputy director, she worked to improve and expand BEA’s statistical programs. Prior to serving as deputy director, Dr. Thompson was the top executive overseeing international economic statistics at BEA; she led the most significant restructuring of BEA’s international statistics since 1976, played a key role in developing statistics that track new direct investment by foreigners in the United States, and oversaw the creation of a data tool to provide easier access to BEA’s vast array of international statistics. Prior to her time at BEA, Dr. Thompson was director of the Market and Trade Economics Division at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service. She has also worked in academia, including as a professor and head of the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University and as a professor of agricultural and consumer economics at the University of Illinois. Dr. Thompson holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Minnesota, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

JAMES TYBOUT

James Tybout is professor of economics at The Pennsylvania State University and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He previously served on the faculty at Georgetown University. Dr. Tybout’s recent research has focused on the effects of international trade on the industrial sectors and labor markets of developing countries. He received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics from Vanderbilt University, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

JOHN VAN REENEN

John Van Reenen is Ronald Coase School professor at the London School of Economics and digital fellow in the Institute for the Digital Economy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Until 2020, he was Gordon Billard professor in the MIT Economics Department and Sloan Management School. Dr. Van Reenen has published more than 100 papers on many areas in economics, with a particular focus on firm performance and the causes and consequences of innovation. He was the 2009 winner of the Yrjö Jahnsson Award (the European equivalent of the Clark Medal), the Arrow Prize (2011), the European Investment Bank Prize (2014), and the Harvard Business Review–McKinsey Award (2018). Dr. Van Reenen is a fellow of the British Academy, the Econometric Society, the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and the Society of Labor Economists. In 2017, he was awarded an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for “services to public policy and economics” by the Queen.

FREDERIC WARZYNSKI

Frederic Warzynski is professor in the Department of Economics and Business Economics at Aarhus University. His research interests include industrial organization, international economics, and organizational economics. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from the Katholieke Universities Leuve.

SHANG-JIN WEI

Shang-Jin Wei is professor of finance and economics at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business and School of International and Public Affairs. From 2014 to 2016, he served as chief economist of the Asian Development Bank and director general of its Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department. Prior to his appointment at Columbia, Dr. Wei was assistant director and chief of the Trade and Investment Division at the International Monetary Fund. He has also served as associate professor of public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Wei is a noted scholar on international finance, trade, macroeconomics, and China, with publications in top academic journals, including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and many others. His research has been reported in popular media, including Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, BusinessWeek, and more. Dr. Wei earned a B.A. in world economy from Fudan University; an M.A. in economics from The Pennsylvania State University; and an M.S. in business administration (finance) and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

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