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- 2023-02-13 ~ 2023-04-28
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm

- 2021-12-09 ~ 2021-12-10
- 8:50am - 3:40pm


Professor, Department of Economics
Professor, Division of Public Policy Edwin Lai is currently Associate Director of the Center for Economic Policy (since 2021). He is Professor of Economics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since July 2009, and later jointly appointed as the Director of the Center for Economic Development (2017-2021) and jointly-appointed as Professor in the Division of Public Policy (since 2018). He was Senior Research Economist and Adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas of the Federal Reserve System of the USA, from August 2007 to June 2009.

Chair Professor, Division of Social Science
Chair Professor, Division of Public Policy
Special Advisor to the Director, HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies Albert Park is a development and labor economist who is an expert on China’s economic development. He is Chair Professor of Economics, Chair Professor of Social Science, and Professor of Public Policy at HKUST. He has been appointed as Chief Economist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). His research and commentary has appeared in the Economist, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, China Daily, BBC, CNN, NBC, Bloomberg, Freakonomics, and NPR.
