"The Future Global Financial Status of the RMB and Shanghai: What Role in the China Dream?"

Presenter: Wing Thye Woo

President, Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia, Kuala Lumpur

Professor of Economics, University of California, Davis

Language: English

Timing: Friday 19 December, 2014, 15:00-16:30

Address: Classroom No.1, Wanzhong Building, Lang Run Garden, Peking University

Wing Thye Woo is President of the Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia in Malaysia, Professor at University of California at Davis, Chang Jiang Professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing, Distinguished Professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, and Director of the East Asia Program within The Earth Institute at Columbia University. His current research focuses on macroeconomic management of open economies, and on the growth the East Asia economies, especially, China, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Wing Thye Woo was born in 1954 in Penang, Malaysia, where he was a member of the 2nd. Georgetown (S) Senior Scout Troop, out of Methodist Boys' School. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1976 with a B.A. (High Honors) in Economics, and a B.S. in Engineering; received an M.A. in Economics from Yale in 1978, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard in 1982.

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