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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.

Associate Professor, Division of Public Policy Hyuncheol Bryant Kim is an applied empirical micro-economist focusing on causal impacts of policy interventions in health and education sectors through large scale data analysis and social experiment. The main goal of his research is to understand the fundamental relationship between human capital investment and individual and societal well being in Africa and Asia, which is insufficiently understood. He received an MD from Yonsei University, Korea, MPH from Seoul National University, Korea, and PhD in Economics from Columbia University, USA.

Assistant Professor, Division of Public Policy
Assistant Professor, Division of Social Science Yatang Lin received her Ph.D. in Economics from London School of Economics in 2017 and joined HKUST in the same year. Her research areas are urban economics and environmental economics.