Scott Rozelle, Stanford University

Scott Rozelle is the Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow and the co-director of Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University. He received his BS from the University of California, Berkeley, and his MS and PhD from Cornell University. Previously, Rozelle was a professor at the University of California, Davis and an assistant professor in Stanford’s Food Research Institute and department of economics. He currently is a member of several organizations, including the American Economic Association, the International Association for Agricultural Economists, and the Association for Asian Studies. Rozelle also serves on the editorial boards of Economic Development and Cultural Change, Agricultural Economics, the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and the China Economic Review.

His research focuses almost exclusively on China and is concerned with: agricultural policy, including the supply, demand, and trade in agricultural projects; the emergence and evolution of markets and other economic institutions in the transition process and their implications for equity and efficiency; and the economics of poverty and inequality, with an emphasis on rural education, health and nutrition.

Rozelle’s papers have been published in top academic journals, including Science, Nature, American Economic Review, and Journal of Economic Literature. He is fluent in Chinese and has established a research program in which he has close working ties with several Chinese collaborators and policymakers. For the past 20 years, Rozelle has been the chair of the International Advisory Board of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy; a co-director of the University of California’s Agricultural Issues Center; and a member of Stanford’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and the Center on Food Security and the Environment.

In recognition of his outstanding achievements, Rozelle has received numerous honors and awards, including the Friendship Award in 2008, the highest award given to a non-Chinese by the Premier; and the National Science and Technology Collaboration Award in 2009 for scientific achievement in collaborative research.

Paul Glewwe, University of Minnesota

Paul Glewwe is Distinguished McKnight Professor at the Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University. His areas of interest include Development Economics, Economics of Education, and Program Evaluation (Impact Evaluation). His research is on household and individual behavior and welfare in developing countries. Most of his research is on education in those countries; in particular on the factors that determine how long (if it all) children go to school and, more important, how much children learn in school. He also conducts research on inequality, income mobility, poverty, and child nutrition in developing countries, and on education in the U.S. He has conducted research on the following developing countries: Brazil, China, Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Ghana, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Morocco, Nepal, Peru, the Philippines, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.

Peter Lanjouw, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Peter Lanjouw (PhD London School of Economics) is professor in development economics. Prior to joining the VU Economics department in January 2015 he had spent more than two decades in the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank, most recently as Manager of the Poverty and Inequality team. He has taught courses at the Delhi School of Economics, the Foundation for the Advanced Study of International Development, Tokyo, and the University of Namur, Belgium, and has held a visiting position at the University of California, Berkeley. He is current editor of the World Bank Research Observer and a past assistant editor of the World Bank Economic Review. He is a fellow of the Tinbergen Institute and a core member of the Global Poverty Commission, convened by the World Bank. His main research interests are: i) measurement and analysis of poverty and inequality in developing countries; ii) structural transformation in developing economies; and iii) contribution of longitudinal village studies to the analysis of rural development.

Shaohua Chen, Xiamen University

Shaohua Chen is Chair Professor of the Paula and Gregory Chow Institute for Studies in Economics and the School of Economics at Xiamen University, and Former Lead Statistician of Development Research Group in the World Bank. Besides her teaching and research, Professor Chen led Gate’s project “Poverty reduction strategy post 2020”; and leads “Relative poverty: Measurement, monitoring and policy implications in China” funded by China National Natural Science Foundation currently. She managed the global poverty monitoring task at the World Bank over 20 years. Her research focuses on poverty, income inequality and the impact evaluation of development policy.

Professor Chen’s research findings have been published in major economics and statistics journals, such as Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Development Economics. She was also the main contributor of the World Bank’s major reports, such as the World Development Report, World Development Indicators, Global Monitoring Report, and Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report.