Professor Wing Thye WOO
胡永泰
Phone3917 0060
OfficeJCT 812
Biography

Wing Thye Woo is the Visiting Professor at the School of Governance and Policy of The University of Hong Kong. He is also the University Chair Professor at the China Economy Research Institute of Liaoning University in Shenyang, China; Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of California Davis; Distinguished Fellow at Penang Institute in Malaysia; and Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies of University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Fudan Development Institute in Shanghai and School of Applied Economics of University of Chinese Academy of Social Science In Beijing. His current research is on efficient, equitable pathways to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals with projects on Green Finance, Middle Income Trap, Decarbonization Pathways, Biodiversity Protection, Promoting Productivity Growth in SMEs, and Global Economic Architecture for a Multipolar World. He is an expert on the economies of China, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

Academic Qualifications
PhD

Harvard University

M.A.

Harvard University

M.A.

Yale University

B.A.

Swarthmore College

B.S.

Swarthmore College

Research Interest
  • Economic Growth & Sustainable Development (especially in China, Indonesia, and Malaysia)
  • Macroeconomic & Exchange Rate Management
  • Public Economics
Awarded Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award, University of California at Davis, 2004, in recognition of Academic and Service Contributions.
Appointed Cheung Kong (Chang Jiang) Professor by the Ministry of Education of China in 2006 : School of Finance, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China, 2006-2015
Awarded Darjah Setia Pangkuan Negeri (DSPN), Order of the Defender of State - Knight Commander, which confers the title Dato on the recipient, by the Governor of Penang, Malaysia, 11 July 2009 in recognition of Academic Excellence, Professional Leadership, and Service Contributions
Appointed National Distinguished Expert by the Thousand Talents Program (Qian Ren Jihua) of China, 2016 : Institute of Population and Labor Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 2016-2021
Appointed Distinguished Professor by University of California, Davis, 17 May 2019.
“Importance of green finance for achieving sustainable development goals and energy security,” (with Jeffrey D. Sachs, Naoyuki Yoshino and Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary) in Jeffrey D. Sachs, Wing Thye Woo, Naoyuki Yoshino and Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary (editors), Handbook of Green Finance: Energy Security and Sustainable Development, Tokyo: Springer, 2019.
"Geography, economic policy, and regional development in China" (with S Démurger, JD Sachs, S Bao, G Chang, and A Mellinger), Asian Economic Papers, pp.146-197, Winter 2002
"Understanding China's economic performance" (with Jeffrey Sachs), The Journal of Policy Reform, pp.1-50, 2001.
"Structural factors in the economic reforms of China, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union", Economic Policy, (with Jeffrey Sachs), pp.101-145, April 1994.
"Present Value Tests of an Intertemporal Model of the Current Account," (with Steven Sheffrin) Journal of International Economics, November 1990.