Module: Financial Research

Lecturer: Wing Thye Woo

Credits: 1 credit (18 lecture hours)

Target Students: 2014 doctoral students, 2014 postgraduates (including students of taught programs) and 2014 postgraduates from International Commerce

Profile of Wing Thye Woo:

Prof. Wing Thye Woo is the Changjiang Scholar and Chair Professor of Central University of Finance and Economics; B.A., Economics and B.Sc., Engineering in Swarthmore College, 1976; M.A., Economics in Yale University, 1978; M.A., Economics in Harvard University, 1982. He is currently the professor in Department of Economics, University of California in Davis; Director of the East Asia Program in the Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development of The Earth Institute, University of Columbia; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution. His research interests lie in Economic Growth and Development, Economics of Globalization, Macroeconomics and Exchange Rate Economics.

Prof. Wing Thye Woo has published more than 150 essays in international prestigious financial and economic journals, such as American Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of International Money and Finance, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Journal of Public Policy, Journal of Comparative Economics and Economic Journal. He has also published multiple professional works and been the academic advisors, editor and co-editor in many international academic journals.

Prof. Wing Thye Woo take research positions in multiple universities, research institutes and international organizations; at the same time, he provides policy-making consulting for multiple national government departments and international institutions regarding macroeconomic and exchange rate management, state enterprise restructuring, trade issues, and financial sector development. He was the member of Consultant Team to China's Ministry of Finance that helped to design the tax and exchange rate reforms implemented in 1994; the Special Advisor of U.S. Treasury during 1997–1998 with duties included accompanying Secretary Robert Rubin to meetings in China, and to the IMF-World Bank annual meeting in Hong Kong; headed the project ‘Asia Competitiveness Report 1999’ , the findings of which were presented at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, 1999; the Convener of the Asian Economic Panel (AEP) in 2001, which consisted of about 65 specialists on Asian and the Pacific Rim economists; the Special Advisor for East Asian Economies in the United Nations Millennium Project, 2002 –2005 (amongst the Millennium Development Goals is to the halving of the 1990 rate of absolute poverty by 2015); the member of the International Advisory Panel to the Prime Minister of Malaysia, 2005-2008; the Executive Director of Penang Institute, Penang, Malaysia, 2012 – 2013, with a goal to build Penang Institute into a think tank on policy research.