Dr. Chen Kang received his Ph.D. in economics and applied mathematics from the University of Maryland. He worked at the World Bank’s Socialist Economies Reform Unit and subsequently taught at the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He was Head of the Economics Division at NTU from 1999 to 2005. He is also the Wang Yanan Chair Professor of Economics at Xiamen University.

Dr. Chen has published widely on issues relating to macroeconomic policy, economic reform and development, and the economic role of government in professional journals. His research areas include agent based models, collective choice, and China’s economic reform. Dr. Chen served as vice president of the Economic Society of Singapore and director of the East Asian Economic Association. He currently serves on the editorial board of the European Journal of Political Economy, and the advisory board of China Economic Quarterly. He also served as a consultant to Asian Development Bank, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Finance, and several other government ministries, statutory boards and multinational corporations.