I am currently a Professor and the Crawford Chair in Agricultural Economics at Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.

Additionally, I also serve as the President of the East Asia branch of the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES), the Vice-President of the Asian Society of Agricultural Economists (ASAE), and the Co-Editor of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (AJARE).

Since 2011, I have published around 50 journal articles including many in top-tier journals such as American Journal of Agricultural Economics; Energy Economics; Journal of International Money and Finance; Canadian Journal of Economics; Review of Income and Wealth; World Development; and Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

I also teach a number of courses for both undergraduates and graduates, including advanced agricultural economics, managerial economics, and quantitative international economics at Peking University and microeconomics and macroeconomics at the Hong Kong Polytech University. Finally, I have also been actively collaborating with leading academics and institutions including ERS-USDA, OECD and IFPRI etc.

Education/Academic qualification

Economics, PhD, Openness to Trade and the Determination of Employment: An Application of Two-sector Search Model with Trade Adjustment, Australian National University

2003 → 2006

International Economics, Master, Nankai University

1999 → 2002

International Economics, Bachelor, Nankai University

1995 → 1999

External Scholarly Memberships and Affiliations

Co-Editor, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Jul 2023 → …

Associate Editor, Journal of Productivity Analysis

2023 → …

Vice President, Asian Society of Agricultural Economists

2019 → …

President of East Asian Branch, Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economic

2019 → …

Global Agricultural Productivity Analysis Group Member, Economic Research Service, US Department of Agriculture/ World Bank/ International Food Product Research Institute

2018 → …

Executive Committee Member, Chinese Economic Society in Australia

2013 → …