42nd Annual Membership Meeting Speaker Biography
He Fan
Deputy Director, World Economics and Politics
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
He Fan is the deputy director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is also a Senior Economics Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking in New York.
Dr. He is one of the most active young economists in China. His fields of interest include Chinese macro-economy, international finance, and international political economy. He is the author or editor of 10 books and more than 100 papers in professional economics journals. Dr. He has worked on a broad range of issues like RMB exchange rate policy, China’s foreign trade and FDI policy, and financial system reform. He is a consultant for the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Commerce, People’s Bank of China, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and is deeply involved in many policy discussions. Dr. He is also a member of the Bellagio group of central bankers and academics (Group Thirty). He was a visiting fellow at Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University in 2014.
Dr. He has also written extensively for a broader public audience. He is a columnist for many newspaper and magazines. Dr. He is an economics commentator for CCTV2 and a regular guest on Dialogue, CCTV9. He has been interviewed by BBC, CNN, NHK, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and other international media.
He was selected as Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2005, Asian Young Leader by the Asia Society in 2006, and Young Leader (YLF) by NCUSCR (National Committee of US China Relationship) in 2007.
Dr. He received his PhD degree (2000) and MA degree (1996) in economics from the Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Hainan University in 1993. From 1998-2000, He was a visiting fellow at Harvard University.