Tang Tang

Board of trustees (former member)

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Dr Tang Min is currently the counsellor of the Counsellors Office at the State Council of the Chinese Government, Deputy Chairperson of the China Social Entrepreneur Foundation and the vice-chairman of Graduate School of the People's Bank of China. Tang's research focuses on macroeconomic analysis, regional economic cooperation, economic development strategies, and international finance.

Dr Tang Min is currently the counsellor of the Counsellors' Office at the State Council of the Chinese Government, deputy chairperson of the China Social Entrepreneur Foundation and the vice-chairman of Graduate School of the People's Bank of China. Tang's research focuses on macroeconomic analysis, regional economic cooperation, economic development strategies, and international finance.

He graduated from Wuhan University in 1982, and went to do his PhD in economics at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, in 1984. After being awarded his PhD degree in 1989, he joined the Development Research Centre at the Asian Development Bank to take charge of East Asian Economic Affairs, Regional Economic Cooperation, Asian Debts and Asian Financial Markets. In 2000, he was appointed the chief economist in the Resident Mission of the Asian Development Bank in China. In 2007, he was appointed as the deputy secretary general of the China Development Research Foundation, a part of the Development Research Centre at the State Council.

Among other positions he holds, he is an adjunct professor at Peking University, Wuhan University and Jinan University; the financial advisor to the Beijing Municipal Government and Guanzhou Municipal Government; a member of Chinese Economists 50; and the director of the Chambers of Commerce of Overseas Returnees of China. He has also published numerous academic papers on Asian economies and China's financial and educational reforms.