Justin Yifu Lin

Justin Yifu Lin is the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank since June 2008. Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Lin served for 15 years as Founding Director and Professor of the China Center for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University. Mr. Lin received his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago and is the author of 18 books, including The China Miracle: Development Strategy and Economic Reform and Economic Development and Transition: Thought, Strategy, and Viability. He has published more than 100 articles in refereed international journals and collected volumes on history, development, and transition. In 2007, he gave the Marshall Lectures at Cambridge; and in 2011, the Simon Kuznets Lecture at Yale and the UNU Wider Annual Lecture in Mozambique, the first ever to be held in a developing country. As a leading Chinese economist, he served on several national and international committees, leading groups, and councils on development policy, technology, and environment, including the UN Millennium Task Force on Hunger; the Eminent Persons Group of the Asian Development Bank; the National Committee on United States-China Relations; the Global Agenda Council on the International Monetary System; Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee; and the Hong Kong-U.S. Business Council.