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Chair Professor, Division of Social Science
Chair Professor, Division of Public Policy
Chair Professor, Institute for Public Policy 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.
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Associate Director, Center for Economic Development
Associate Director of the Dean of Business & Management Professor Yao Amber Li is currently an Associate Professor of Economics in School of Business and Management, the Associate Director of Center for Economic Development and the Dean of Business & Management at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She has been serving as Vice-chairperson of the Standing Committee of CTRG (China Trade Research Group) since 2019 and Joint Secretary-General of the Secretariat of the Quality Alliance at Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau University Alliance since 2020.
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Co-Director of the Dean of Business & Management Professor David Cook joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Department of Economics in 1996 after receiving a Ph. D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is currently a Professor at HKUST. His research focuses on international macroeconomics with a concentration on emerging markets issues. He is currently the Hong Kong editor of the Pacific Economic Review.
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Assistant Professor, Division of Public Policy
Assistant Professor, Institute for Public Policy
Assistant Professor, HKUST Energy Institute 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.