Fan Gang (Chinese: 樊刚; born in 1953) is one of China's most prominent economists and one China's most active reform advocates.[1] He is currently based in Beijing, serving as a professor at the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) as well as the director of China's National Economic Research Institute (NERI).[2] He is also the Secretary-General of the China Reform Foundation.[3]
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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.[4] 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.
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 then attended Harvard University from 1985 to 1988, receiving his Ph.D. in Economics.[5]
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"[6] 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.