<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Sean L. E. Gilbert</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seang@mit.edu">seang@mit.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 7:58 PM<br>Subject: MIT China Forum: China's Universities in Perspective, Tsinghua U Prof. Yingyi Qian, Thurs. Dec. 6, 11:30am-1:00pm, E52-164;<br>To: mit-china <<a href="mailto:mit-china@mit.edu">mit-china@mit.edu</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Please join us for Tsinghua University Professor Yingyi Qian’s MIT China Forum talk on Thursday! <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Professor Qian was born in Beijing and graduated from Tsinghua University in Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">after earning an M.Phil. in Management Science/Operations Research from Yale University and an M.A. in Statistics from Columbia University.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">He was on the economics faculties</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">at Stanford University, the University of Maryland, and the University of California, Berkeley. He was the Dean of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University in 2006-2018.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Professor Qian was elected as Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2012 and as inaugural Distinguished Professor of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Tsinghua University
in 2018. He was a recipient of the 2009 Sun Yefang Prize in Economic Sciences</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> and the inaugural 2016 China Economics Prize</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.
His main research areas include comparative economics, institutional economics, economics of transition and the Chinese economy.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">He is the author of the book
<i>How Reform Worked in China: The Transition from Plan to Market</i> (The MIT Press, 2017) and has published articles in international journals such as
<i>The </i></span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, The Quarterly Journal of Economics,</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
and<i> The Review of Economic Studies</i></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Warm regards,</font><br><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Nanxi Liu</font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Class of 2020</span></div><div><a href="mailto:nanxi@mit.edu" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" target="_blank">nanxi@mit.edu</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> | (909) 565-3868</span></div></div></div></div></div></div>