Banquet Keynote Speaker

Professor Gregory Chow

Gregory C. Chow is Professor of Economics and Class of 1913 Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University.  Cornell University (BA, 1951), University of Chicago (MA, 1952, and Ph.D., 1955).   Assistant Professor at MIT, 1955-1959, Associate Professor at Cornell University, 1952-1962, Manager of Economic Research at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 1962-1970, and Professor of Economics and Director of the Econometric Research Program at Princeton University, 1970-1997.  Professor Chow is a member of the American Philosophical Society and of Academia Sinica and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Econometric Society.  He has served as Associate Editor or Co-editor of the American Economic Review, China Economic Review, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, MOCT-MOST, Review of Economics and Statistics.  His publications include ten books and over 160 articles. 

    Gregory Chow serves as Chairman of the American Economic Association’s Committee on Exchanges in Economics with the People's Republic of China from 1981 to 1994 and as Co-chairman of the U.S. Committee on Economics Education and Research in China from 1985 to 1994.  He has been a member of the U.S.-Hong Kong Economic Co-operation Committee.  He advised former Prime Ministers and Chairmen of the Economic Planning and Development Council of the Executive Yuan in Taiwan on economic policy from the mid 1960's to the early 1980's.  He was responsible for a three-year program (1984-1986) to teach modern economics in China.  He has been appointed Honorary Professor at Fudan, Shandong, The People's, and Zhongshan Universities, Honorary President of Lingnan (University) College.  In 1986, he received a Honorary Doctor's Degree from Zhongshan University, and in 1994 received an LL.D. from Lingnan College in Hong Kong.  His book, The Chinese Economy (1985) has been translated into Chinese and is widely read in China.  He has advised the Chinese State Education Commission on economics education in China, the Prime Minister and the State Commission for Restructuring the Economic System on economic reform in China. He is economic advisor to the Shandong Provincial Government and adviser to China’s Natural Science Foundation, a member of Advisers of the School of Management, Tsinghua University, Taiwan, a member of the Board of Advisers, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and a member of the Class III (Social Science) membership committee of the American Philosophical Society.