Yong Wang

Professor Yong Wang is Deputy Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University. Before joining PKU, he worked at the Department of Economics at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the World Bank. Yong obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. His main research fields are Economic Growth, Macro Development, China and India's Economy, and New Structural Economics. He publishes academic papers on journals including Journal of Development Economics and Journal of Monetary Economics, and is an author of eight books including Thoughts and Debates on New Structural Economics (Peking University Press). Yong currently serves as a co-editor for China and the World Economy (SSCI) and Latin American Journal of Central Banking. 

He also serves as Secretary General of the New Structural Economic Research Alliance, Consultant of the World Bank, and Research Associate of Federal Reserve Bank of the United States, Vice Chairperson of China’s Development Economics Association. He is a young Changjiang scholar from the Ministry of Education since 2025. He is a recipient of the First Prize of National Academic Research in Humanities and Social Sciences in Chinese Universities by the Ministry of Education of China (2020), the Inaugural Peikang Chang Young Scholar Award in Development Economics (2018), China Young Economist Award (2017), Franklin Best Teaching Award at HKUST(2014), and the Martin and Margaret Lee Prize in Price Theory at the University of Chicago (2004).