Zhang Weiying - Keynote

Weiying Zhang
Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Market and Network Economy of Peking University

Professor Weiying Zhang is Professor of Economics and director of the Center for Market and Network Economy of Peking University. He graduated with a bachelor degree in 1982, and a master degree in 1984, both from Northwestern University at Xi'an. He received his M. Phil. in economics in 1992 and D. Phil. in economics in 1994, both from Oxford University.

After graduated from Oxford, he co-founded Peking University's China Center for Economic Research in 1994, and worked with the Center until August 1997. He then moved to Guanghua School of Management in September 1997. With Guanghua School, He was the executive associate dean from February 1999 to August 2006 and dean from September 2006 to December 2010. Since 2002, he has also served as assistant president of Peking University. Professor Weiying Zhang has played a leading role in transforming Guanghua School of Management. His visionary reform measures have had significant impacts on changes of business education in China. He was the chief architect of the 2003 Peking University faculty system reform.

Professor Weiying Zhang is a leading economist in China. Professor Weiying Zhang's research interests include the industrial organization, corporate governance, information economics, and Chinese economic reform. His papers have appeared in the international journals such as Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Comparative Economics, China Economic Review, and Review of Development Economics, as well as the leading Chinese journals such as Economic Research Journal and Management World. His Chinese books of An Entrepreneurial/Contractual Theory of the Firm, and The Theory of the Firm and China's Enterprise Reform have been among the most cited in Chinese academic publications since 1995. His works have had significant impacts on China's enterprise reform policy formulation and the development of economics in China. He has been widely regarded as a "leading market liberalist" in China for his pro-privatization, pro-liberalization and anti-regulation, and an authority of the theory of the firm and ownership reform in China. He was awarded the "National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars" in 2000 by the Natural Science Foundation of China, and "the 10 People of the Year in Chinese Economy" by CCTV in 2002. In 2008, he was selected as one of "the 30 persons of the 30-year Economic reform of China" by China Economic Reform Association. In 2010，he published his new book the Logic of the Market, which became a best-seller academic book.

Professor Weiying Zhang has extensive consulting experiences with both governmental departments and business enterprises. Since 2001, he has served as the chief economist of China Entrepreneurs Forum. His past services include: a member of the Advisory Board on Enterprise Reform to the State Commission for Restructuring Economic System; a consultant to the Department of Enterprises of the State Economic and Trade Commission; a local consultant to the World Bank Project on Chinese State-owned Enterprises Reform; a member of the Advisory Board for the State Informatization Committee; and a member of the Advisory Board for Telecommunication Law Drafting Committee. He is a member of "Chinese Economists 50 Forum". Currently he also serves as an Independent Board Director of Pudong Development Bank.

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