Intervenant

YU Yongding

Academician - Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Yu Yongding is an Academician with Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), member of National People’s Political Consultative Conference (NPPCC); member of Committee of Foreign Affairs of NPPCC; member of Advisory Committee of National Planningof the National Development and Reform Committee of the PRC; member of Advisory Committee of Foreign Policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the PRC. He was Director-General of Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP) with the CASS (1998-2009), President of China Society of World Economy (2003- 2010),and Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China (2004-2006), and UN commission of the Reform of the International Financial and Monetary System (2008-2010).

Yu Yongding was born in 1948 in Jiangsu province. He graduated from the Beijing School of Science and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1969 and worked as electrician at Beijing Heavy Machinery Factory from 1969- 1979. He joined the Institute of World Economics in 1979 and was appointed as Research Fellow (1983-1986), Head of Research Department (1986), Senior Research Fellow (1987) and Senior Fellow (1995).

He received his MA in economics from Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (1983), and D.Phil. in economics from the University of Oxford (1994). His main interests are in the areas of Macroeconomics, International Finance and World Economics.