- When:
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14.Apr.2010 17.00 - 18.30
- Where:
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SEAS, Seminar Room A06 -
Sheffield
Bio
After completing his PhD in Economics from the
University of Manchester in 1989, Shujie Yao worked at the Universities
of Oxford, Portsmouth and Middlesex as research fellow, lecturer,
Professor and Chair of Economics before joining The University of
Nottingham as Professor of Economics and Chinese Sustainable Development
in August 2006.
Subsequently appointed as the first Head of the
School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at Nottingham in January 2007,
Prof. Yao is an expert on economic development in China. He has
published six research monographs, edited books, as well as produced
more than 70 refereed journal articles. He was ranked eighth among the
world's China scholars specialising in the study of the Chinese economy
in a recent article published in the Journal of Asian Economic
Literature.
Professor Yao has published widely in many top
economics and development journals in the world, including the Journal
of Political Economy, Journal of Comparative Economics, Economic
Development and Cultural Change, World Economy, China Quarterly, and the
Journal of Development Studies, China Economic Review, among others. He
is founding editor of Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies,
chief economics editor of Xi'an Jiaotong University Journal (Social
Sciences), editorial member of Journal of Comparative Economics, Food
Policy and Journal of Contemporary China.
Prof. Yao is also coordinator of the China and
the World Economy programme at the Globalisation and Economic Policy
Centre at Nottingham and special chair professor of economics of Xi'an
Jioatong University. He has had a wide range of consultancy experience
with major organisations including the UNDP, FAO, World Bank, ADB, DFID,
EU and the UNCDF, working in many less developed and transitional
economies in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.
