Keynote Speakers

It is our honor to welcome the following distinguished keynote speakers, who will be joining us on site this year:

Chao Fu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Chao Fu is the Mary Claire Aschenbrener Phipps Distinguished Chair in Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She serves as Co-Editor of Quantitative Economics, Board of Editors of the Journal of Economic Literature, and has previously been a Foreign Editor of the Review of Economic Studies. Her research interests center on labor economics and the economics of education. Her work has been published in leading journals, including Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy and Review of Economic Studies.

Le Wang (Virginia Tech)

Le Wang is the David M. Kohl Chair and Professor at Virginia Tech, where he also directs the Kohl Centre, a pioneering interdisciplinary hub for modern data analytics. His research spans applied microeconomics—labor, demography, education, health, and public economics—while placing strong emphasis on quantitative methods, including causal inference, distributional analysis, and machine learning. His current work focuses on income inequality, gender gaps in the labor market, and intergenerational mobility, alongside the development of new econometric tools to address fundamental empirical challenges in these areas. He has published widely in leading journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, and Journal of Applied Econometrics. Beyond research, he serves as Co-Editor of the China Economic Review and the Journal of Labor Research, Associate Editor of Econometric Reviews, and is a Research Fellow at IZA and Director of the Young Scholars Program at the Global Labor Organization.

Shintaro Yamaguchi (University of Tokyo)

Shintaro Yamaguchi is a Professor of Economics at the University of Tokyo. His research field is labor economics, with a focus on family policies and gender equality issues. He has published in leading journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and Quantitative Economics. In addition to his academic work, he serves on several government advisory councils in Japan, contributing research insights to policy discussions on gender equality and family policy.

Junjian Yi (Peking University)

Junjian Yi is the Boya Distinguished Professor at Peking University and Chair of the Academic Committee at the National School of Development, Peking University. He serves as Executive Editor of China Economic Quarterly and Associate Editor of the Journal of Comparative Economics. His research interests primarily lie in the economics of artificial intelligence, health economics, labor economics, development economics, econometrics, and behavioral economics. His academic work has been published in leading international journals across economics, management, demography, and public health, including the Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Management Science, Demography, The Lancet, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.