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In this Chinese name, the family name is Fan.

Fan Gang (simplified Chinese: 樊纲; traditional Chinese: 樊綱; pinyin: Fán Gāng; born in 1953) is one of China's most prominent economists and one of China's most active reform advocates. He is currently based in Beijing, serving as a professor at the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and at the Peking University HSBC Business School, as well as the director of China's National Economic Research Institute (NERI). He is also the Secretary-General of the China Reform Foundation.

Biography

Dr. Fan serves as an advisor to numerous organizations, including the Monetary Policy Committee of the People's Bank of China. He is a well-respected expert in the macroeconomics of long-term development, international trade and currency, foreign relations and China's regional integration within Asia. He is most renowned for addressing such topics as China's financial risk and financial systems reform, foreign exchange regimes and revaluation, China's economic reform, and globalization.

Education

Dr. Fan Gang graduated from the Economics Department at Hebei University with a political economics major in 1982. Fan then studied Western economics in the Economics Department of the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences from 1982 to 1985. He subsequently spent two years as a visiting fellow at Harvard University and the US National Bureau of Economic Research from 1985 to 1987 and received his Ph.D. in economics from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1988.

Publications

Dr. Fan has written over 100 academic papers, over 200 articles for magazines and newspapers worldwide along with eight books on macroeconomics and the economics of transition. He now regularly writes a monthly series called "Enter the Dragon" exclusively for the public-benefit corporation Project Syndicate. In "Enter the Dragon," Dr. Fan examines the trends that are shaping China's economy – and spells out what they mean for the rest of the world.

Notable positions and achievements

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Director, National Economic Research Institute
Secretary-general, China Reform Foundation
President, China Development Institute
Professor, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Professor, Peking University HSBC Business School
Member, Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security of China
Member, Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Center for Monetary Policy
Member, Monetary Policy Committee of the People's Bank of China
Advisor, State Foreign Exchange Administration of China
International Advisor, Center for International Development, Harvard University
Non-Executive Director, Ping An Insurance Company of China, Ltd.
Fellow of the World Economic Forum (since 1994)
Fellow of the Chinese Economist Society (USA; since 1993)
Consultant to the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Economic Social and Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), and to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)