Participant Biographies

Zhang Jun

Zhang Jun

Dean, School of Economics; Director, China Center for Economic Studies, Fudan University
Session 1 - "When Growth Falters"

Prof. Zhang Jun is Dean of the School of Economics and Director of China Center for Economic Studies at Fudan University. Prof. Zhang is one of the leading economists in China and has extensively written on China’s economic transformation and development, with special references to the evolution of property rights and institutional change, capital accumulation, productivity, structural change, and economic growth in China. His recent publications include Economic Transition with Chinese Characteristic: Thirty Years of Reform and Opening up (McGill-Queen University Press, 2008), Transformation of the Chinese Enterprises (Cengage Learning, 2009), and Unfinished Reforms of the Chinese Economy (World Scientific Publishing Ltd., 2013). Prof. Zhang received his B.Sc., M.A., and Ph.D. in Economics from Fudan University and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics and the University of Sussex.