China Debate 2018 - Speaker Biographies

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China Debate 2018 - Speaker Biographies

Jane Duckett

(University of Glasgow)

Jane Duckett is Edward Caird Chair of Politics and Director of the Scottish Centre for China Research at the University of Glasgow. A Fellow of the British Academy, Professor Duckett's research includes work on the Chinese state under market reform, notably The Entrepreneurial State in China (Routledge, 1998), and a comparative study of public attitudes to openness in East Asia and Eastern Europe (with Bill Miller), published as The Open Economy and its Enemies (CUP, 2006). Since then, her research has been concerned with Chinese public policy. She has argued through studies of social welfare, poverty, unemployment and health policies, that the politics behind them and their enormous redistributive consequences make them central to the Chinese state’s marketising project. Her monograph, The Chinese State’s Retreat from Health: Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment (Routledge, hdbk 2011; pbk 2013) drew on comparative political theory to explain the Chinese state’s retrenchment in health care provision between the 1980s and 2003. Her recent work has examined the politics behind Chinese 21st century rural social policies and includes papers in Europe-Asia Studies and The China Quarterly.

Graham Hutchings

(Oxford Analytica)

Graham Hutchings is Principal at Oxford Analytica, the global analysis and advisory firm. He is an Associate at Oxford University’s China Centre and an Honorary Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. He was China Correspondent for London’s Daily Telegraph from 1987 to 1998, based first in Beijing and then Hong Kong.

Nicholas Lardy

(Peterson Institute for International Economics)

Nicholas R. Lardy is the Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He joined the Institute in March 2003 from the Brookings Institution, where he was a senior fellow from 1995 until 2003. Before Brookings, he served at the University of Washington, where he was the director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies from 1991 to 1995. From 1997 through the spring of 2000, he was also the Frederick Frank Adjunct Professor of International Trade and Finance at the Yale University School of Management. He is an expert on the Chinese economy. Lardy's most recent books are Markets over Mao: The Rise of Private Business in China (2014) and Sustaining China's Economic Growth after the Global Financial Crisis (2012). His previous books include The Future of China's Exchange Rate Policy (2009) (co-authored with Morris Goldstein), Integrating China into the Global Economy (2002), China’s Unfinished Economic Revolution (1998), China in the World Economy (1994), Foreign Trade and Economic Reform in China, 1978–1990 (1992); Agriculture in China’s Modern Economic Development (1983), and Economic Growth and Distribution in China (1978). Lardy is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a Member of the Editorial Boards of Asia Policy and the China Review. He received his BA from the University of Wisconsin in 1968 and his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1975, both in economics.

Minxin Pei

(Claremont McKenna College, USA)

Minxin Pei is the Tom and Margot Pritzker ‘72 Professor of Government and the director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College.  He is also a non-resident senior fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.  Prior to joining Claremont McKenna College in 2009, he worked for a decade as a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and served as its director of the China Program from 2003 to 2008. Pei was an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University from 1992 to 1998. His research focuses on democratisation in developing countries, economic reform and governance in China, and US–China relations.  He is the author of From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union (Harvard University Press, 1994), China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy (Harvard University Press, 2006), and China’s Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay (Harvard University Press, 2016). Pei’s research has been published in Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, the National Interest, Modern China, China Quarterly, Journal of Democracy, and many edited books.  His op-eds have appeared in the Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Fortune.com, Nikkei Asian Review, and Project Syndicate.  He received his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University.

Shi Yinhong

(Renmin University of China)

Shi Yinhong is a distinguished Professor of International Relations, Chairman of Academic Committee of the School for International Studies, and Director of the Center on American Studies at Renmin University of China in Beijing. He has served as a Counsellor of the State Council of PRC since February 2011. His previous positions include Professor of International History at Nanjing University and Professor of International Relations at International Relations Academy, Nanjing. He also served as President of American Historical Research Association of China from 1996 to 2002. He taught graduate courses as Visiting Professor of Public Policy three times at University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and Visiting Professor of Modern China Studies at Aichi University in Nagoya. He received a Ph.D. in international history from Nanjing University in 1988. He mainly engages in history and ideas of international politics, strategic studies, East Asia security and foreign policies of both China and the United States. He has published eighteen books, about 600 professional articles and essays, as well as nineteen translated books mainly on strategic history and international politics.