Yan Liang

Yan Liang is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow with the Global China Initiative at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center and the Peter C and Bonnie S Kremer Chair Professor of Economics at Willamette University. She is also a Research Associate at the Levy Economics Institute and a Research Scholar of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity.

Yan specializes in the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), the Political Economy of China, Economic Development and International Economics. Yan’s current research focuses on China’s development finance and industrial transformation, and China’s role in the global financial architecture. Yan publishes in leading heterodox economics journals and contributes to a number of heterodox economics books. Yan received several grants from the Institute for New Economic Thinking, the Luce Foundation and the Chinese Ministry of Education. Yan is a regular commentator on the China Global TV Network, the East Asia Form, South China Morning Post, the Diplomat Magazine, among others. Yan is an elected board member of the Association for Evolutionary Economics and immediate past president of Association for Institutional Thought. She currently serves as a guest editor for the Chinese Economy.