Xiaobo Zhang is a Senior Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Development Strategies and Governance Unit and Chair Professor of Economics at Peking University. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development and the European Institute for Chinese Studies. Zhang’s main interest areas are agricultural economics, development economics, and the Chinese economy. He is a co-principal investigator for the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) survey and principal investigator for the Enterprise Survey for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in China (ESIEC).

Zhang has published widely in top economics journals, including the Journal of Political Economy, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of International Economics, and Journal of Public Economics. His recent books include Governing Rapid Growth in China: Equity and Institutions (2009), Regional Inequality in China: Trends, Explanations and Policy Responses (2009), Narratives of Chinese Economic Reforms: How Does China Cross the River? (2010), Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (2014), and China Regional Innovation Report (2016, in Chinese).

Zhang is the chief editor of China Economic Review. He received the Sun Yefang Prize for Economics Research in China (the most prestigious award in the field of economics in China) and Zhang Peigang Development Economics Outstanding Achievement Award (the highest award in the field of development economics in China). His research has been cited about 14,000 times, according to Google Scholar. He received his PhD in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University.

Languages spoken: Chinese, English