Justin Yifu Lin

This article is about the Chinese economist. For the film director, see Justin Lin. For the Taiwanese economic officeholder, see Lin Yi-fu.
Justin Yifu Lin
Chief Economist of the World Bank
In office
June 2008 – June 2012
PresidentRobert Zoellick
Preceded byFrançois Bourguignon
Succeeded byMartin Ravallion (Acting)
Personal details
Born
Lin Cheng-yi

(1952-10-15) 15 October 1952 (age 72)
Yilan County, Taiwan
Education
Military service
AllegianceRepublic of China (1952–1979)
People's Republic of China (1979–)
Branch/serviceRepublic of China Army
Years of service1971–1979[a]
RankCaptain
Scientific career
FieldsPolitical economy
InstitutionsWorld Bank
Peking University
ThesisThe household responsibility system in China's agricultural reform: a study of the causes and effects of an institutional change. (1986)
Doctoral advisorsD. Gale Johnson
Theodore Schultz
Sherwin Rosen
WebsiteOfficial website
Academic career
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Justin Yifu Lin (Chinese: 林毅夫; pinyin: Lín Yìfū; born on October 15, 1952) is a Chinese economist and professor of economics at Peking University.[1] He served as the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank from 2008 to 2012.[2] He has been appointed as China's State Council Counsellor since September 2013.[3][4]

Born in Yilan County of the Republic of China (Taiwan), Lin was a ground force captain and company commander of the Republic of China Army on the Kinmen Islands, where he swam across the channel and sought refuge in Xiamen of the People's Republic of China in May 1979.[5][6] After settling in Mainland China, Lin became an economist after pursuing graduate studies in economics at Peking University and the University of Chicago, where he received respectively a Master of Economics in 1982 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1986. His doctoral advisor at the University of Chicago was Nobel laureate economist Theodore Schultz.

After completing his postdoctoral studies at Yale University, he returned to Beijing and became a professor of economics at Peking University in 1987.[7] He founded the China Center for Economic Research (currently the Peking University National School of Development) and was later appointed Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank where he served from 2008 to 2012.[8] After that, he returned to Beijing and to his research at Peking University.

His main academic theory is called New Structural Economics. At Peking University, he currently serves as the Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics, the Honorary Dean of the National Development Institute, and the Dean of the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development.[9]


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  3. ^ "国务院参事室". Counsellors' Office of the State Council. Archived from the original on 2022-10-02. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  4. ^ "林毅夫参事作"百年未有之大变局与新发展格局下的中国经济发展"专题讲座-国务院参事室". Counsellors' Office of the State Council. Archived from the original on 2022-10-02. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  5. ^ "林毅夫叛逃中國40年 妻子陳雲英祕訪台灣「學術交流」". tw.news.yahoo.com (in Chinese). 28 January 2019. Archived from the original on 2022-10-02. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  6. ^ "林毅夫或续遭台湾检方通缉 台方认定"投敌"-中新网". www.chinanews.com.cn. Archived from the original on 2022-10-02. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
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  8. ^ "Justin Yifu Lin Leaves World Bank - Economic Observer Online - In-depth and Independent". Archived from the original on 2012-06-22. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
  9. ^ "全职教师". www.nse.pku.edu.cn. Archived from the original on 2022-07-08. Retrieved 2022-10-02.