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1.2019-12-25.UCD-Woo CV.Talks 16-18 25 December 2019 Curriculum Vitae Wing Thye Woo (胡永泰) Distinguished Professor Tel No: +1-530-752-3035 Department of Economics Fax No: +1-530-752-2625 University of California [email protected] One Shields Avenue Davis, California 95616 Research Interests: Economic Growth and Sustainable Development (especially in China, Indonesia, and Malaysia), Macroeconomics, Exchange Rate Economics, and Public Economics. Languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Indonesia Education Harvard University - Sept. 1978 - June 1982 M.A., Ph.D. in Economics Yale University - Sept. 1977 - June 1978 M.A. in Economics Swarthmore College - Sept. 1973 - May 1976 B.Sc. in Engineering (Civil) B.A. in Economics (with High Honors awarded by Committee of External Examiners) Selected Awards and Honours McNamara Fellowship, World Bank, to study the role of real exchange rate management in the industrialisation of East Asia, 1989-1990 Article “The Monetary Approach to Exchange Rate Determination under Rational Expectations: The Dollar- Deutschemark Case" (Journal of International Economics, February 1985) was identified by the Journal of International Economics to be one of the twenty-five most cited articles in its 30 years of history, February 2000. Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award, University of California at Davis, 2004, in recognition of Academic and Service Contributions. Selected Public Lectures include: • Cha Chi Ming Cambridge Public Lecture on Chinese Economy, University of Cambridge, two lectures, November 1 & 3, 2004 1 • Nan Qiang Lecture, Xiamen University, China, December 10, 2008 • The Fourth Annual Sadli Lecture, Borobudur Hotel, Jakarta, 15 April 2010, co-sponsored by University of Indonesia and Australian National University • The World Economy Asia Lecture (sponsored by the journal, The World Economy), Nottingham Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP), University of Nottingham in Malaysia, January 13, 2011 • Wan-Lin Kiang Lecture, University of California at Irvine, May 3, 2011 • ODID Distinguished Visitor Lecture, University of Oxford, May 12, 2011 • Penang in Asia Lecture (inauguration of this lecture series), Penang Institute, Malaysia, July 29, 2011 • Jeffrey Cheah Distinguished Speaker, Sunway University, June 12, 2013 • Sir John Monash Distinguished Lecture (inauguration of this lecture series), Monash University Malaysia, June 23, 2014 • Werner Sichel Lecture, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, October 7, 2015 • Mellichamp Global Studies Lecture, University of California at Santa Barbara, April 28, 2016 Appointed Cheung Kong (Chang Jiang) Professor by the Ministry of Education of China, 2006. • School of Finance, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China, 2006-2015 Awarded Darjah Setia Pangkuan Negeri (DSPN), Order of the Defender of State - Knight Commander, which confers the title Dato on the recipient, by the Governor of Penang, Malaysia, 11 July 2009 in recognition of Academic Excellence, Professional Leadership and Service Contributions Appointed National Distinguished Expert by the Thousand Talents Program (Qian Ren Jihua) of China, 2016, attached to Institute of Population and Labor Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 2016-present Article "China Meets the Middle-Income Trap: The Large Potholes in the Road to Catching-Up," (Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, Vol. 10, No.4, November 2012) was awarded the JCEBS Best Paper Prize at the 30th Anniversary Conference of the Chinese Economist Association (UK/Europe) held in Edinburgh on 22-23 June 2018. Appointed Distinguished Professor by University of California, Davis, 17 May 2019. Selected Professional Affiliations Distinguished Professor, Economics Department, University of California, Davis (UCD); been at UCD since 1985. Convener of the Asian Economic Panel (AEP), and Editor-in Chief of the AEP journal, Asian Economic Papers, MIT Press, 2011-present. AEP is presently sponsored by the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), Sunway University, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Keio University, and Shanghai Jiaotong University. AEP is a global network of specialists on Asian and the Pacific Rim economists. AEP met twice a year in 2001-2011 period, and has been meeting thrice a year since 2012 to discuss analytical papers on important economic policy issues, especially those related to Asia. 2 UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), a consortium of 1100 member organizations (overwhelmingly universities from around 100 countries) with around 33 national and regional chapters in 2019, that is dedicated to undertaking research, providing policy advice, and implementing programs to accelerate the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 • Co-Chair of the SDSN Southeast Asia Regional Network, 2016 - present • Member of Networks Strategy Council, governing committee of SDSN, 2019 - present Sunway University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia • Member of the Board of Directors • President, Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia (JCI), 2014-present o to establish JCI into an interdisciplinary public policy research institute that advances analytical understanding of Southeast Asia • Director, Jeffrey D. Sachs Center on Sustainable Development, 2016-present o to collaborate with the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) to establish the Center of Excellence in Southeast Asia to work with universities around the world in research on Sustainable Development and in the creation of world-class programs to train policy leaders to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Adjunct (Te Bing) Professor, School of Economics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 2012 – present • Leader of a joint Fudan-Columbia interdisciplinary research team to study sustainable development in China, report published by Imperial College Press and Word Scientific as A New Economic Growth Engine for China: Escaping the Middle-Income Trap by Not Doing More of the Same, 2012. (Title of Chinese version Kuayue Zhongdeng Shouru Xianjing: Zhanwang Zhongguo Jingji Zengzhang de Chixu Xing, Shanghai People's Press, 2012.) • Leader of a joint Jiaotong-Fudan-Columbia interdisciplinary research team to study financial sector reform strategies for China, report published by Imperial College Press and Word Scientific as Financial Systems at the Cross Road: Lessons for China's Choice, 2014. (Title of Chinese version Shizi Lukoude Jinrong Tixi: Guoji Jingyan yu Zhongguo Xuanze, People's Bank of China Press, 2013) Adjunct Research Fellow, Institute of Population and Labor Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2016 - present Penang Institute, George Town, Malaysia, • Distinguished Fellow, 2014-present • Executive Director, 2012-2013 o to build Penang Institute into a think tank on policy research o led the formulation of a 10-year development plan for Penang known as The Penang Paradigm. Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University, 2002–2018 • Director of the East Asia Program in the Center for Sustainable Development • Convener, first, of the International Monetary Advisory Group (IMAG) and, then, of the International Policy Advisory Group (IMG), co-sponsored by the Asian Development Bank and the Earth Asia, 2009- 2015. The meetings – nicknamed "The Shadow G-20 Workshop" were held in New York City, Seoul, Beijing, Paris, Bali, and Manila. 3 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts • Visiting Professor, Ash Center, Kennedy School of Government, 2016-2017 o taught the course “BGP 628: Workshop on the Growth Challenges of China and Southeast Asia” in Fall Semester 2016 • Associate, Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, 2000-2002 o originated and realised the idea of establishing the Asian Economic Panel (AEP) and publishing the journal Asian Economic Papers, MIT Press; • Faculty Associate, Harvard Institute for International Development, 1997-2000 o originated and organised the project “China’s Integration into the World Economy” (1997-98); led an international team to study the implications of China's emergence as an important trading nation, and co- sponsored conferences in Cambridge, Washington DC, San Francisco, and Honolulu on this subject; a part of my report was published as “Discrepancies in International Data: An Application to China-Hong Kong Entrepot Trade,” in American Economic Review, May 1999. o headed the project “Asia Competitiveness Report 1999” to analyse the Asian financial crisis; findings presented at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, February 1999; the updated report was published by MIT Press as The Asian Financial Crisis: Lessons for a Resilient Asia in 2000. Vice-Chancellor's Professorial Fellow, Monash University, 2014–2016, at Monash Sustainability Institute, Monash University in Clayton, Melbourne; and School of Business, Monash University Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur Brookings Institution, Washington DC • Non-Resident Senior Fellow, 2009-2015 • The New Century Chair in International Trade and Economics in the Global Economy and Development Program, and Senior Fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center of the Foreign Studies Program at the, Brookings Institution, Washington DC, 2006-2009 • Research Associate, Economic Studies Program, 1982-1985 • Research
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