Woo Wing Thye

In this Chinese name, the family name is Woo.
Woo Wing Thye
胡永泰 (Chinese)
Professor Woo Wing Thye
Born1954
Penang, Malaysia
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
InstitutionSustainable Development Solutions Network
University of California, Davis
Sunway University
Alma materSwarthmore College
Yale University
Harvard University
ContributionsTransition Economics
Open economy macroeconomics
East Asian Economies
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Woo Wing Thye (Chinese name: 胡永泰) is a Malaysian-American economist. He is currently Vice President for Asia of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network;[1] Distinguished Fellow of the Penang Institute in George Town, Malaysia;[2] National Distinguished Fellow in the Thousand Talents Program of China; Changjiang Professor in China; and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at University of California, Davis. He is also Director of the East Asia Program within the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and a member of the International Advisory Council at the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE);[3] and holds academic positions Fudan University in Shanghai,[4] Henan University in Kaifeng, Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics in Urumuchi, Peking University in Beijing, and Sunway University in Kuala Lumpur.

Professor Woo is an expert on East Asian economies, particularly China, Malaysia and Indonesia. He has written extensively on the middle-income trap, as well as on transition economics, growth and development, globalization, exchange rate economics, and regional economic disparity.

He earned his PhD from Harvard University in 1982 with a thesis entitled 'Exchange rate determination under rational expectations: a structural approach'.[5] The University of Cambodia awarded Professor Woo an Honorary Doctorate in Sustainable Development in 2020.[6]

  1. ^ "Sustainable Development Solutions Network". www.unsdsn.org. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  2. ^ "Prof. Dato' Dr Woo Wing Thye – Penang Institute". penanginstitute.org. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  3. ^ "Wing Thye Woo - CASE".
  4. ^ "复旦大学经济学院-师资队伍". 2013-06-10. Archived from the original on 2013-06-10. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  5. ^ Woo, Wing Thye (1982). "Exchange rate determination under rational expectations: a structural approach". Thesis (PHD) Harvard University – via ResearchGate.
  6. ^ Prof. Wing Thye Woo, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics, 2 September 2020, retrieved 2022-11-23