Dr. Wing Thye Woo
Professor of Economics
University of California at Davis
Wing Thye Woo holds the New Century Chair in Trade and International Economics in the Global Economy and Development Program, and is Senior Fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center within the Foreign Policy Studies Program at The Brookings Institution. He is also Professor at the University of California at Davis; the Director of the East Asia Program within The Earth Institute at Columbia University; and the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) Professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing, China . His current research focuses on the economic issues of East Asia (particularly, China, Indonesia, and Malaysia), international financial architecture, comparative economic growth, state enterprise restructuring, fiscal management, and exchange rate economics.
Wing Thye Woo has advised a number of governments. He was a member of Consultant Team to China's Ministry of Finance that helped to design the tax and exchange rate reforms implemented in January 1994. In 2001, Wing Thye Woo helped establish the Asian Economic Panel, a forum of about 50 leading specialists on Asian economies which biannually to discuss economic issues that are of particular importance to Asia; and selected proceedings are published in the journal Asian Economic Papers (of which Wing Thye Woo is the editor), MIT Press.
Wing Thye Woo graduated from Swarthmore College in 1976 with a B.A. (High Honors) in Economics, and a B.S. in Engineering; received an M.A. in Economics from Yale in 1978, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard in 1982.