Expertise
Economic issues of East Asia (particularly China and Indonesia); International financial architecture; Economic growth; Exchange rate economics
- Language Fluency:
- Mandarin
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Bahasa Malaysia
- Cantonese
- Taiwanese
Background
Current Positions
Professor, Department of Economics, University of California at Davis; Director, East Asia Program, Center for Globalisation and Sustainable Development, Columbia University
Past Positions
Special Advisor for East Asian Economies in the Millennium Project of the United Nations (2002-2005); Special Advisor to the U.S. Treasury (1997-1998); Consultant to China's Ministry of Finance (1994)
Expert Awards
Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award, University of California at Davis; appointed Distinguished ISIS Fellow, Institute of Strategic and International Studies in Malaysia; Chang Jiang Scholar, Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing, China
Education
Ph.D., M.A. (1982), Harvard University; M.A. (1978), Yale University; B.A., B.S. (1976), Swarthmore College
"China's growth has been accompanied by growing anxiety in the United States. While U.S.-based multinationals rush to establish a foothold in China's growing market and U.S. consumers stock up on 'made in China' merchandise, American manufacturing workers, small business owners and politicians have become anxious about this latest wave of globalization."