Executive Forum Archive

The Eighth Annual SNAI-ASU Executive Forum

Economic Restruct: Opportunities and Challenges
May 21th, 2011, Shanghai China

Sponsors
Shanghai National Accounting Institute
W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University

International Conference Center , Shanghai National Accounting Institute

Agenda

Keynote Speakers

 Professor Gregory C. Chow
Professor of Economics and Class of 1913 Professor of Political Economy
Emeritus, Princeton University

Gregory Chow served as Chairman of the American Economic Association’s Committee on Exchanges in Economics with the People's Republic of China from 1981 to 1994 and as Co-chairman of the U.S. Committee on Economics Education and Research in China with support from the Ford Foundation from 1985 to 1994. He was a member of the U.S.-Hong Kong Economic Co-operation Committee. He advised former Prime Ministers and Chairmen of the Economic Planning and Development Council of the Executive Yuan in Taiwan on economic policy from the mid 1960's to the early 1980's. He was responsible for a three-year program (1984-1986) to teach modern economics in China under the sponsorship of the Chinese State Education Commission (currently Ministry of Education). He has been appointed Honorary Professor at Fudan, Zhongshan, Shandong,  Remin, Hainan, Nankai, and Guangxi Universities, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences  and the City University of Hong Kong. He is Honorary President of Lingnan (University) College. He received an Honorary Doctor's Degree from Zhongshan University in 1986, an LL.D. from Lingnan University in Hong Kong in 1994 and an Honorary Doctor of Business Administration from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2009. His book, The Chinese Economy (1985) has been translated into Chinese (Nankai University Press, 1985) and is widely read in China. He has advised the Chinese State Education Commission on economics education in China. He has also advised  the Prime Minister and the State Commission for Restructuring the Economic System on economic reform in China.  
 He is a member of the American Philosophical Society and of Academia Sinica, and a fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Statistical Association.  His publications include fourteen books and over 200 articles. The books include: Demand for Automobiles in the United State: A Study in Consumer  Durables (North Holland Publishing Company , Amsterdam , 1957); Analysis and Control of Dynamic Economic Systems (John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1975); Econometrics (McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1983); The Chinese Economy (Harper & Row, New York , 1985); Understanding China's Economy (World Scientific Publishing Co., New Jersey, 1994); Dynamic Economics: Optimization by the Lagrange Method (Oxford University Press, 1997); China's Economic Transformation (Blackwell Publishers, 2002  and 2007) , Knowing China (World Scientific, 2004), Economics Education and Economic Reform in China (2007, in Chinese) and Interpreting China's Economy (World Scientific, 2010). At his retirement from Princeton University in 2001, the Econometric Research Program was renamed the Gregory C Chow Econometric Research Program in his honor.

Li Yang is the Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and member of the Leading Party Group of CASS.  Prof. Li currently serves as a member of the Academic Division of CASS; Research fellow and Ph. D supervisor; and Adjunct Professor at Renmin University of China, Fudan University in Shanghai, Nanjing University, and China University of Science and Technology in Anhui. He also serves as Vice President of the China Society for Finance & Banking; Vice President of the China Public Finance Society; Vice President of the China Society for International Finance & Banking; Former member of Monetary Policy Committee, People’s Bank of China; and a member of the Research Center for Interdisciplinary Study in the Natural and Social Sciences at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the Honorary Title of “National Outstanding Specialists with Remarkable Contributions to the Country” by the State Council in 1992. Professor Li has published 23 monographs and over 400 articles and working papers, and has organized or participated in around 40 State-Level Research Projects and International Cooperative Studies.  He has been awarded the Sun Yefang Economics Prize, the most distinguished prize for economics in China, no less than five times.  Professor Li graduated with a BA in political economy from Anhui University in 1981, obtained a Master’s degree in money and banking at Fudan University in 1984, and completed his Ph.D in public finance at Renmin University of China in 1989. He was a visiting professor at Columbia University in 1998-1999.