Dear CES Members,
We are pleased to annouce the following candidates for the next CES President-Elect and Board of Directors of 2011-2012. There is one candidate for CES President-Elect, and there are 7 candidates for Board of Directors of 2011-2012 from which we will choose 6 Broad of Directors. Below please find their bio and personal statement, as well as the names of two nominators.
The campaign period will start from May 20 to June 2, 2011, followed by the election/voting week from June 3 to June 11, 2011. The announcement of election will be announced by June 15.
We would like to urge all of you to participate in the election. Your active involvement is important to the success of the CES.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Yongmiao Hong, NEC voting member, 2011, yh20@cornell.edu
Holly Wang, NEC voting member, wanghong@purdue.edu
Jack W. Hou, NEC, 2009, jackhou@csulb.edu
Ding Lu, NEC non-voting member, ecslud@yahoo.com
Shuming Bao, NEC non-voting member, sbao@umich.edu
Candidate for CES President-Elect
Tony Fang
Bio
Tony Fang is an Associate Professor of Human Resources Management at York University and a Research Associate at the University of Toronto. Currently, he also serves as the Domain Leader in Economic and Labour Market Integration at CERIS - Ontario Metropolis Centre, a Faculty Associate at York Centre for Asian Research. In 2010, he was awarded the title of “Chutian Scholar” (楚天学者) of Hubei Province. Tony holds a PhD from the University of Toronto and has taught, worked and consulted in the areas of labour market economics, human resources management, industrial relations, and social policy. His major areas of research interest encompass economics of education, economics of immigration, minimum wages, union impact on wages, innovation and firm growth, pension, retirement policy and the ageing workforce, and pay equity and employment equity. Since receiving his PhD in 2004, he has published more than a dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Industrial Relations (Berkeley), Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Public Policy, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of Labor Research, and International Journal of Manpower. In the last six years, he has also received 7 research awards from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and 5 research grants from Human Resource and Development Canada.
Statement
I have been long affiliated with the CES and was elected as a member in the CES Board of Directors in 2007-2008. Personally I benefited enormously from my involvement in various professional activities in the CES, and welcome the opportunity to pass it on to others. Thanks to the dedication and exemplary leadership of the past Presidents and the Board of Directors, the Society has gained exceptional reputation and made remarkable contributions to the advancement of economics and management sciences in China and abroad. Many of our senior members have successfully promoted scholarly exchanges, economic growth and social development. Indeed it’s a great privilege to serve as the Board member of the CES and I would like to thank the CES members for nominating me as the President-elect of the CES. Given my teaching, research, and administrative experiences, I am confident that, under the guidance of the Society’s regents and support of the fellow members, I will be able to further advance the Society’s professional impact and contributions. If elected, my priorities are to maintain the excellence of the current CES programs, including its annual conference in China, CES/AEA sessions, and the Chow Teaching Fellowship program. I would also endeavour to expand the membership base and assist young scholars to advance their professional careers through various networking, funding, and publication opportunities, build bridges between economic research, management practices and policy development, and encourage interdisciplinary and collaborative research in various fields of economics, management, and policy studies both in China and overseas.
Candidates for CES Broad of Directors
Jay Guo
Bio
Jiequn (Jay) Guo is the head of the Global Fixed-income Quantitative Methodology & Strategy Group and the Structured Securities Groups at IDC (Interactive Data). He also serves as an adjunct professor of the Zicklin School of Business at The City University of New York (CUNY). Prior to joining IDC, he was with Seer Capital and responsible for trading strategies and analytics for Mortgage-Backed (MBS) and Asset-Backed (ABS) securities. He was a Director at Credit Suisse for the Global Proprietary Trading Division and focused on mortgage credit products. Prior to assuming that role, he was a Director at Credit Suisse Structured Products Strategy & Research Group, which has been ranked as the All-America Research Team by “Institutional Investor” in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007. Jay joined Credit Suisse from Fannie Mae, where he was an economist in the Credit Policy and Finance Division. In addition to over 200+ professional publications, in his spare time, Jay has published a dozen academic research articles in finance and economics journals, such as the “Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics”, “Journal of Futures Markets”, and others. His views and research on the mortgage and real estate markets have been quoted by “The Wall Street Journal”, “Chicago Tribune”, “Market Watch”, and others. Jay holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Indiana University, a Masters degree in Economics and Statistics, and a B.S. in Mathematics from Beijing Normal University (BNU). He is a member of the Board of Directors of the BNU Xieyu Education Foundation, and a council member of the Global Chinese Real Estate Congress.
Statement
Thanks to the hard work of the previous Presidents and members of Board of Directors, CES has established itself as the premier organization among overseas Chinese economists. However, the reach of the organization is largely restricted to academia. As a matter of fact, the past membership expansion specifically focused on universities. On the other hand, many Chinese economists are working on industrial corporations. A great deal of communication among industrial and academic professionals is needed. In the past, I have been trying to invite the CES members to join industrial conferences which I'm affiliated. But we need a systematic way for this organization to collaborate with other non-academic organizations expanding from organizing only academic conferences. It is indisputable that the rapid growth of Chinese economy has attracted a great attention from the world. There are many topics have been debated out of the territory of academic community. The CES is uniquely positioned to make significant contributions to facilitate the understanding on the Chinese economy beyond scholarly research. If elected, I want to make connections between the two through several platforms, including but not limited to industrial conference, internships to economics major students, joint research projects.
Secondly, I would emphasize initiatives to help our fellow students. Many of us didn’t have that access, but we can offer our time to our young fellows now. We should build up a work plan to help them on research direction, job hunting and career development. If elected, I would like to work on plans, including but not limited to webinar training, mentoring programs.
I also think we should enhance our current website. We need to improve the website and have it to be a useful resource to our members and non-members. I also think the transparency of this organization should be improved.
In addition, the growth of the CES requires financial support. I would like to utilize my working experience at financial firms to support continuous development of CES financially. I think establishing a CES scholarship is also a feasible way to go.
HE, Jie
Bio
He Jie is an associate professor of Economics at University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. She received her degree of Bachelor from University of Sun Yat-sen in 1997, and her master and Ph.D from CERDI (Centre des Études et des Recherches sur le Developpement International), Université d’Auvergne in France. Before joining University of Sherbrooke in 2006, she had worked as consultant for the Development Research Group of the World Bank and participated in project management with United Nation Environment Programme (UNEP). She was also an invited researcher of Katholic University of Leuven in Belgium (2006-2007) and a visiting professor in Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2008-2009). Her research area includes Environmental and Natural Recourse Economics and Development Economics. Her research works on the trade-environment relationship for China and on the methodologies for non-market goods valuation and their application in China’s cases have been published in well-ranked international academic journals as Ecological Economics, Applied Economics, Environment and Development Economics and China Economic Review, etc. and several top Chinese Scientific Journal as China Economic (Quarterly) and The Journal of World Economy, etc.
During 2009-2011, she serves as a member of Board of Directors for PACE (Professional Association for China’s Environment). As an active PACE member, she organised with several colleagues and co-authors the 2006 and 2009 PACE summer camp held respectively in Qiandao and Kunming, China. Currently, she also acts as one principal member of organisation and scientific committee for the upcoming 2011 PACE summer camp to be held in July 2011 in Hangzhou, China.
Statement
I would like to thank the election committee for nominating me as a candidate for board of directors of the Chinese Economist Society. I participated regularly the activities organised by CES in the past years, enjoyed very much the friendly and scientific atmosphere and benefited greatly from the network of CES. In July 2006, one of my papers, published later on by Ecological Economics, was awarded the George Chow Best Paper Award. I hope that I will have the opportunity to bring my contribution to the activities of CES and strengthen the existing network between CES and young Chinese researchers in both Chinese and foreign universities in North American, Europe and else in the world.
HU, Guangzhou Albert
Bio
Albert Guangzhou Hu is an associate professor of economics at the National University of Singapore. He received a B.A. in international finance from Nankai University, P.R.C. and a Ph.D in international economics from Brandeis University in 1999. His research interests include economics of technological change, economic development and the Chinese economy. His research has appeared in Journal of Development Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, and other academic journals. He has also consulted for Asian Development Bank, World Bank and World Intellectual Property Organization. In the past he has served as assistant treasurer for the Economic Society of Singapore.
Statement
I am honoured to be nominated to serve on the board of directors of CES, which has made a disproportionate contribution to the advancement of the economics science in China and to the intellectual exchange between Chinese and overseas economists. If elected, among other things, I will assist the President with the "CES Best PhD Dissertation Series". With a prestigious publisher, this will become a new venue for disseminating original and significant research by our junior members on the Chinese economy.
LI, Hui
Bio
Dr. Hui Li is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at Eastern Illinois University. Dr. Li obtained her Bachelor and Master Degrees from Jilin University, and her Ph.D. from University of New Mexico in the US in 2003. She currently is on academic leave and lectures at the University of Birmingham, UK (2010-2011).
Her research is mainly focused on the empirical studies in the areas of environmental economics including non-market valuation studies, sustainable development, ecological economics, development economics, and trade. She is also interested in survey research. She has published papers in journals including Political Analysis, Ecological Economics, World Economy and Journal of Agricultural and Environment Economics.
She teaches a variety of courses including environmental and natural resource economics, econometrics, applied econometrics, Statistics in Business and Economics. She also writes the instructors materials to one of the most popular environmental economics textbooks— “Environmental and natural resource economics” by Tom Tietenberg and Lynne Lewis.
Dr. Li is an editorial board member of the International Journal of Sustainable Society. She has also been actively involved in administrative duties in developing and coordinating collaborative programs with Chinese universities. She has initiated and coordinated several partnership programs between the department of Economics at Eastern Illinois University and the School of Mathematics at the University of Birmingham with several Chinese universities.
Statement
The endeavors of the senior members in CES to promote market-based economic reforms and the open-door policies in China, to endorse academic exchanges between China and the outside world, and to develop and support scholarly study and economic education have deeply impressed me and attract me to be a CES member. The scope and impact of the Society have been increasing drastically in years. Being a member in this Society, I would love to contribute to her growth.
CES has already brought significant impact through her well-known conferences, seminars and consultation to the government. I feel the Society can extend its influence further by broadening the areas of focal topics to labor, environment, welfare and etc in parallel with international trade, finance and development issues. CES can also play a unique yet important role in promoting academia and cultural exchanges by helping more Chinese universities without strong connections to the outside world, to build collaborative programs by introducing a special session into annual conference.
It is an honor to be nominated as a candidate for the BOD. If I have the opportunity to serve in the Board of Directors of the Society, I will work closely with the President and other BOD members in promoting the Society and in encouraging the academic links between China and the outside world to help CES continued success.
Ni, Jinlan
Bio
Dr. Jinlan Ni is an Assistant Professor of Department of Economics at University at Nebraska at Omaha. Her economics journey started in 1996 at China Center for Economic Research (CCER). After getting her MS in Economics from Peking University in 1999, she continued in pursuing PhD in Economics at Purdue University and graduated in 2004. Dr. Ni’s major areas of research include international finance, financial economics, and applied microeconomics. She has published more than ten articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Corporate Ownership and Control, China Economic Review, China & World Economy, International Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of Management Issue, and Chinese Economy. One of her publications, coauthored with Dr. Chu Wei and Dr. Manhong Shen, won the 2008-2009 Gregory Chow Best Paper Award from the CES.
Since 2004, Dr. Ni has traveled every summer between China and US for research and teaching on the Chinese economy. Besides attending CES and other economics conferences, she visited and gave talks at several University such as Zhejiang University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE), Zhejiang GongShang University, Zhejiang Normal University. In 2006 and 2008, she taught Research Method in Economics at Zhejiang University and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE), respectively. The latter was sponsored by the CES with a Chow Short-term Summer Teaching Program Award.
Statement
I would like to thank the committee members for nominating me as a candidate for board of directors of the CES. As you can see from my bio, I have been affiliated with the CES since 2004 and benefited tremendously from attending CES conferences, being supported for my teaching at SUFE, and being recognized for my research. Now it is time for me to serve and help the CES. If elected, I will work closely with the CES President, Dr. Ding Lu, on various activities, assisting him to organize CES annual meeting, manage the CES teaching program, and build bridges of economic research and education between China and overseas.
SONG, Bingtao
Bio
Bingtao Song is Associate Professor of Economics and Associate Dean of the School of Economics at Henan University in China. He received his Bachelor of Science in 1985 from Henan Normal University, Master of Economics in 1990 from Zhongnan University of Finance and Economics, and PhD in Economics in 2007 from Henan University. He joined Henan University in 1990, and became Associate Professor in 2003. As an exchange student from Henan University, he studied at University of Manitoba in Canada in 1999-2000. He was a visiting scholar at the Department of Economics at Copenhagen University in Denmark in 2005-2006. His research interests include Public Economics, Institutional Economics, and Economic History. He has published more than 20 journal articles in Chinese and presented papers in English at international conferences, with one published in Contemporary Asian Economic Research. He is the translator of Freedom and Growth by S.R. Epstein (Commercial Press, Beijing 2010).
Statement
I would like to thank the election committee for nominating me as a candidate for board of directors of the CES. As a strong supporter of internationalization of China's economics education, I have long admired the role of the Chinese Economist Society in the professional development of Chinese economists and promotion of modern economic science in China. It is a great honour for me to have this excellent opportunity to serve on the board of CES as an economics professor based in China. With your support and mandate, I will work closely with the President and other board members to make sure a great success of the CES 2012 conference to be held at Henan University. I will also try my best to develop the academic links between the overseas Chinese economists and economics faculties in the Inland China.
WU, Yangru
Bio
Yangru Wu received his PhD in Economics from Ohio State University in 1993. He is Professor of Finance and Director of Master of Quantitative Finance Program at Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick, Rutgers University. He also serves as a special term professor and dean of the Chinese Academy of Finance and Development at the Central University of Finance and Economics. Previously he was Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and at West Virginia University. He also holds adjunct professorship at Peking University and Nankai University. Professor Wu serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Money Credit and Banking, and sits on the editorial boards of Afro Asian Journal of Finance and Accounting and Annals of Economics and Finance. He was executive editor of the Journal of Asian Economics. He had been visiting professors at Singapore Management University and the National University of Singapore, visiting research fellow at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, and senior finance fellow at the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Professor Wu’s main research interest is on international finance and empirical asset pricing. He has published over forty papers in refereed journals, including several leading journals in finance and economics. Dr. Wu has received the Best of the Best Paper Award and the Competitive Paper Award in Investments from the Financial Management Association, Senior Faculty Research Award from Rutgers Business School, and the Outstanding Research Award from West Virginia University. He was listed among the top 1000 economists worldwide based on Tom’s ranking.
Statement
Thank you very much for considering my candidacy. The Chinese Economist Society has done many good things since its creation. It would be my great honour to serve on the Board. I have received a great deal of help from many scholars in the profession at various stages of my career. It is time for me to help others.
