Fan Gang, President of National Economics Research Institute, China Reform Foundation

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Economics Ph.D., Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
President, National Economics Research Institute, China Reform Foundation
Director, Professor, Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) 

 
Dr. Fan Gang is a highly distinguished economist trained at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, an elite government think tank overseeing numerous research institutes. In addition to his duties as a professor of that think tank and director of the prestigious NERI-China, Fan devotes his considerable energy to serving as an advisor to the Chinese government and consultant to a number of international organizations. Dr. Fan is a prolific author as well, with over 100 academic papers and eight books on macroeconomics and the economics of transition to his name.

Dr. Fan has been a proponent of using tight monetary policy coupled with an expansionary macroeconomic policy to stimulate China's domestic demand, which remained sluggish during 1999. Although critics of the Chinese government's massive investment in infrastructure construction maintained that such public spending merely increased government debt and had so far failed to achieve its purpose, Dr. Fan recommended patience, pointing out that macroeconomic policies take time to work and that in the absence of adequate private investment, the government was obliged to step in until the market economy became firmly established.

Dr. Fan Gang, having earned his Ph.D. in economics at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, went on to become an economics professor there. He also rose to the directorship of the National Economic Research Institute of the China Reform Foundation. He currently holds both titles.

Publications:

01/01/2005 Asia's Post-Tsunami Future – Project Syndicate (Readings)

15/04/2002 China's Economic Growth and Structural Reforms After WTO Membership – Evian Group (Policy brief)

19/02/1999 Burst of Global Financial Bubble and the Asia Crisis: Reform of International Financial System from Perspectives of Developing Countries – Evian Group (Readings)

Email: fangang@neri.org.cn

Editor: Jessie Hwang