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The Fellowship is the highest honour the Association confers on scholars who have advanced research on the Chinese economy.
The CEA Fellows programme recognises distinguished scholars who have made outstanding and sustained contributions to research on the Chinese economy and to the mission of the Chinese Economists Association UK/Europe. Fellows are elected by the CEA Board and represent the highest honour the Association confers on its members. The programme was established to celebrate academic excellence, foster mentorship across generations of economists, and strengthen the Association’s ties with the global community of China-focused researchers.
Following approval by the CEA UK/Europe Board, 14 distinguished scholars have been elected as the inaugural cohort of Fellows. They were officially awarded the Fellow of CEA UK/Europe on 6th August 2025, during the Annual Conference of the CEA UK/Europe held at the University of Glasgow.
Under the Constitution, Fellow membership recognises “those outstanding scholars who have made a significant contribution to research on the Chinese economy or to the affairs of the Association over an extended period”. Fellows are nominated by two existing board members, elected through a voting process and approved by the Executive Board.
Directory
Listed in alphabetical order by family name. Entries show only what the Association has published about each Fellow.
Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts, Society and Business
University of Wollongong
Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Society and Business at the University of Wollongong. She was previously Vice-Dean (Innovation and Enterprise) in the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment at University College London and Director of the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction.
Fellow since 2025 Profile
Professor
Aix-Marseille University
Professor at Aix-Marseille University and a research fellow of the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research, which lists his work on China's yield curve and monetary policy, central bank communication, and commodity and real-estate price volatility.
Fellow since 2025 Profile
Supervisor
China International Capital Corporation Limited
Supervisor of China International Capital Corporation since May 2015, which he helped found in 1994–1995; holds a doctorate in economics from Oxford (1993) and a bachelor's degree from Peking University (1982). The filing records the former name 金立左.
Fellow since 2025 Profile
Boya Chair Professor; Honorary Dean, National School of Development; Dean, Institute of New Structural Economics
Peking University
Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics and Honorary Dean of the National School of Development, Peking University. He was appointed World Bank Chief Economist in 2008, the first person from a developing country to hold the post.
Fellow since 2025 Profile
Professor
Peking University
Professor of the Department of Development Economics and Founding Director of the Center for Human and Economic Development Studies (CHEDS), Peking University. His research spans human development, health, education and social protection, and China's development strategy, rural finance and the environment.
Fellow since 2025 Profile
Vice President and Managing Director, Asia and China
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
Holds a 1992 PhD in Economics from the University of London on the economic effects of British privatisation. A former Senior Lecturer at London Guildhall University, he researched state-enterprise reform and monopoly regulation, and is a former Chinese Economic Association president.
Fellow since 2025 Profile
Professor
SOAS, University of London
Professor in the Department of Economics at SOAS, University of London, and a DPhil in Economics from Nuffield College, Oxford. Her research covers emerging-market macroeconomics, developments in econometrics, empirical finance and international economics.
Fellow since 2025 Profile
Chair Professor, Mr and Mrs Chan Chak Fu Professor in International Tourism, Director of Research Centre for Digital Transformation of Tourism
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Professor Haiyan Song has a strong background in Economics. His research focuses on tourism economics, particularly tourism demand modelling and forecasting, tourism supply chain management, tourist satisfaction and wine economics.
Fellow since 2025 Profile
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Fortune Oil Holdings Ltd
Peking University economics alumnus (1978 cohort) with a PhD in Economics from the University of London; a former research fellow at the London School of Economics and chairman of the Chinese Economic Association (UK); Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Fortune Oil Holdings.
Fellow since 2025 Profile
Professor
The University of Western Australia
Prof. Yanrui Wu is an economist specialising in development economics, international trade and applied econometric modelling. His research interests include the Chinese and Asian economies, productivity analysis, economic growth, resource and environmental economics.
Fellow since 2025 Profile
Professor
Chongqing University
Professor at Chongqing University's School of Economics and Business Administration. His listed research interests include economic growth, income distribution and poverty, quantitative methods and applied econometrics, and development and agricultural economics.
Fellow since 2025 Profile
Professor
Fudan University
Professor at Fudan University, Dean of the School of Economics and Director of the China Center for Economic Studies. His listed research direction is the contemporary Chinese economy, and he works on China's economic transition and reform.
Fellow since 2025 Profile
Boya Distinguished Professor; Director, Center for Market and Network Economy
National School of Development, Peking University
His research fields are the theory of the firm and corporate governance, entrepreneurship and economic growth, China's economic transition, and law and economics. He was awarded the China Economics Innovation Prize in 2011.
Fellow since 2025 Profile
Guest Professor of Economics
Fudan University
Guest Professor of Economics at Fudan University's International School of Finance and Chief Economist of the International Finance Forum. He joined the Asian Development Bank in 1997 and was its Deputy Chief Economist from 2010 to 2018.
Fellow since 2025 Profile
