Dear CES Members:
The slate for the 2009 Officers is now complete:
President-elect:
Yanling Wang, Carton University, Canada
Board of Directors:
Zhiqi Chen, Carlton University, Canada
Han Hong, Stanford University
Hongbin Li, Tsinghua University, Beijing
Bruce Reynolds, University of Virginia
Lemin Wu, a PHD student from UC Berkeley
Wei Xiong, Princeton University
As you can clear see, we have an outstanding list of candidates. If elected, they will take office on September 1, 2009, and their term will run through August 31, 2010. The President-elect will then assume the office of the president on September 1, 2010.
Please spend a few minutes to examine the attached bio and statement of each candidate. The official ballot will be sent out next early week, with a relative short voting window.
A friendly reminder, only member-in-good-standing (defined as with current membership dues paid) can vote, so if you have let your membership lapse, please renew them immediately by visiting www.china-ces.org, and click on the membership link.
Sincerely
Nomination and Election Committee
Jack W. Hou, Chair
Haizheng Li
Xiaobo Zhang
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Jack W. Hou Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
Dept. of Economics
California State U.
Long Beach, CA 90840-4607
TEL: (562)985-4710
FAX: (562)985-5804
E-mail: jackhou@csulb.edu
President
Western Social Science Association
Chair of Regents and Past President
Chinese Economists Society
Co-Editor
Contemporary Economic Policy
Published by the Western Economic Association
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Yanling Wang
Nominated for President-Elect 2009-2010
Bio
Dr. Yanling Wang is Associate Professor of Economics at Carleton University. She earned her B.A. and M.A. from Renmin University of China, and Ph.D. from Georgetown University. Her research focuses on the impact on the local economy of international trade and foreign direct investment. She has published many refereed articles and several book chapters on these subjects. She currently serves as the President of the Canadian Women Economists Network. Dr. Wang has a wide range of working experiences besides academia, including a researcher at the State Economic & Trade Commission (SETC)—PRC, a consultant at the World Bank, and a research fellow at Statistics Canada. She has co-worked with a number of renowned economists on projects regarding international technology spillovers, plant turnover and survival in the face of globalization.
Statement
This is Yanling Wang, an Associate professor at Carleton University. I have had the privilege to serve as a Board of Director for CES, and have been very active in participating the Society’s activities. I have experienced and learned first-hand the many great things CES has to offer. The Society is in its third decade, and thanks to the hard work of the previous Presidents and BODs, CES has established itself as the premier economic organization in every aspect. The Society has grown impressively in size.
I am enthusiastic, open-minded, easygoing and hardworking. My past and ongoing works have equipped me with the knowledge, experience, vision, team work spirit and leadership skills to take on the challenging and exciting works facing CES president. If elected as CES President, I will follow in the footsteps of the past Presidents in maintaining the high standard of the Society. In addition, I plan to introduce state-of-the-art lectures by leading economists in the fields so that conference participants and students at the host university get to listen to the latest research topics. I will take advantage of the existing programs at the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs to seek collaborations for inviting overseas scholars for CES meetings. Expanding membership will continue to be a top priority, and I will specifically target on those universities and institutions whose economists have done some work on the Chinese economy. With the growing number of economists studying the Chinese economy, CES offers the right platform to increase the influence worldwide.
CES has been making great contributions to the scholarly research on the Chinese economy. With your support and participation, we will carry on the spirits and expand the scholarly activities in new directions, and together we a great contribution to advance the causes of CES.
Zhiqi Chen
Nominated for Board of Directors 2009-2010
Bio
Dr. Zhiqi Chen is a professor of economics at Carleton University and a co-editor of Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. He is also a Changjiang Scholar Professor at Xiamen University and a Special Term Professor at Shanghai University of Economics and Finance. From 1996 to 1998 he was the Director of Carleton Industrial Organization Research Unit, and from 2001 to 2004 he was the Director of Ottawa-Carleton Joint Doctoral Program in Economics. From 1998 to 1999 and again from 2004 to 2005 he twice held the T.D. MacDonald Chair in Industrial Economics at the Canadian Competition Bureau. Dr. Chen’s main research areas are industrial organization and international trade. His research papers have been published in leading economics journals such as the American Economic Review, Economic Journal, RAND Journal of Economics, and International Economic Review. In 2000 he received a Research Achievement Award from Carleton University, and was the recipient of several research grants from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Dr. Chen has extensive consulting experience in competition policy, and has worked as an economics expert on many anti-trust cases. Dr. Chen’s biography has been included in the Canadian Who’s Who and Who’s Who in Canadian Business.
Statement
I would like to serve on the Board of Directors of the Chinese Economists Society and as a candidate for Vice President of CES because I want to contribute to the promotion of exchanges among scholars of the Chinese economy and to the advancement of economics research and education in China. With its growing influence on the world economy, the Chinese economy has attracted a great deal of attention from the general public, policy makers and academics in North America. At the same time, the rapid economic growth has also accelerated the modernization of economics education and research in China. The CES is uniquely positioned to make significant contributions to facilitate the researches on the Chinese economy and to assist China in its modernization efforts, as it has successfully done since its establishment in 1985. If elected, I would feel privileged to have the opportunity to serve the CES and its members, and to make a humble contribution to the fulfillment of CES’s mandate at this historical juncture.
Han Hong
Nominated for Board of Directors 2009-2010
Bio
Han Hong is Professor of Economics at Stanford University, California, USA. He earned his Bachelor degree from Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, China in 1993, and his PhD degree from Stanford University in 1998. Prior to coming back to Stanford University, he has taught at the Economics Departments in Princeton University as an assistant professor and in Duke University as both an associate professor and professor. His research crosses into several areas in econometrics, economic theory, empirical industrial organization and statistics. He has published extensively in economics and econometrics journals, and is currently serving as associate editors for both the Journal of Econometrics and the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.
Statement
Joining the Board of Directors of the CES will be a new experience to me. I am motivated to work for CES because CES can serve as a bridge for promoting economics research and teaching in China. While my past research and teaching has focused largely on theoretical issues in econometrics and their applications in empirical studies, I believe that they can bring a substantial impact on how empirical economics research is done and how it can influence public policy making in China. By serving as a board member, I hope to help CES play a more major role in this regard.
Hongbin Li
Nominated for Board of Directors 2009-2010
Bio
Hongbin Li is currently Professor in the Economics Department of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in 2001, and was a tenured professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong before returning to Beijing. He is a Research Fellow of IZA the German Institute for the Study of Labor, and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Comparative Economics.
Professor Li’s research has been focused on China and is concerned with two general themes; a) the behaviors of governments, firms and banks in the context of economic transition; b) labor and demographic issues in the context of economic development. Most of his work is empirical in nature, in a number of cases using primary data sets that he has collected himself; in other cases tapping rich secondary data sets. These projects have been supported by Hong Kong Research Grant Council, the Ford Foundation and the Natural Science Foundation of China, and research results have been published in various journals in the field.
Statement
CES was an important organization for oversea Chinese economists, for the research field of China studies and for promoting scholarly research in China. With more oversea scholars having retuned to China, CES should try to accommodate them and help to build up an academic market within China. By serving on the CES board of directors, I’d be happy to try my best to contribute to CES along these avenues, among other things.
Bruce Reynolds
Nominated for Board of Directors 2009-2010
Bio
Professor Bruce Reynolds received a B.A. from Yale University and a PhD from the University of Michigan, where he studied under Profs. Alex Eckstein, Robert Dernberger and Gary Saxonhouse. His early work concerned the industrialization of Chinese textiles in the 19th and early 20th centuries. After 1980 his work centered on the economic reform process, and in particular the interaction of reform, international trade and economic growth.
He traveled to China in 1973 and 1979, and in 1980-81 was a visiting exchange scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He has organized several major conferences, the first in 1988 and the most recent in 2006, and has edited three books and published dozens of scholarly articles. Since 2001 he has been a member of the Department of Economics at the University of Virginia.
Statement
I was present at the founding meeting of CES, at Harvard University in the early 1980s, and I have watched with great pleasure and admiration as this professional society has grown and flourished. In the 1990s, I edited China Economic Review from Cornell. Since moving from Ithaca to Charlottesville, I’ve been less in touch with CES activities, and I’d welcome this opportunity to become more involved and to make additional contributions, especially under the leadership of Yongmiao Hong.
Lemin Wu
Nominated for Board of Directors 2009-2010
Bio
Lemin Wu is a second-year PhD student at the Economic Department of University of California, Berkeley. He earned his B.S. from School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University. His field of interest is Industrial Organization.
Statement
I am honored to be nominated as a candidate for the Board of Directors of Chinese Economist Society. Chinese Economist Society, with extinguished past leadership, has made great achievement in promoting academic exchanges among Chinese economic scholars. I hope I may join to serve the society and carry on serving the community of Chinese economists together with my colleagues in the Board.
If I were to serve on the Board, I would work closely with the President and other members of the Board to promote the influence of the society. Particularly, I would do my best to have our society get closer to the Chinese Economic PhD students in America, listen to their need and find ways to help. I believe the resources CES are able to offer are unique. Our society is a prestigious non-profit organization founded 24 years ago by a group of passionate PhD students. Our society once bridged the Pacific to spread ideas yet to prove their power. Now, ideas have bloomed into economic miracles and passion has been realized in the expanded and expanding community of Chinese economists. It’s time to make the most of this elite community by better communication within it for more efficient production of ideas. Academic communication can go beyond conferences and seminars. I would explore the ways our society might follow in promoting it among Chinese scholars.
Wei Xiong
Nominated for Board of Directors 2009-2010
Bio
Wei Xiong is Professor of Economics in Department of Economics and Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton University. His primary research interest is in the area of asset pricing, behavioral finance and financial markets. He has published in various academic journals, including Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Journal of Economic Theory. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and the Finance Editor of Management Science. He received his B.S. in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1993, and his Ph.D. in Finance from Duke University in 2001. He joined Princeton University as an Assistant Professor in 2000, and was promoted to Professor in 2007. Since 2008, he has also served as the director of the academic committee of the Hanqing Advanced Institute of Economics and Finance, Renmin University of China.
Statement
I am honored to be nominated as a candidate for the board of directors of Chinese Economists Society (CES). As a Chinese economist in the U.S., I feel the responsibility to help bridge the gap between the economics communities in China and in the western world. CES is an ideal platform. If elected, I will try my best to support the president-elect Yongmiao Hong’s effort in organizing the regular activities of the society, as well as in increasing the visibility and influence of the society in the economics profession.