Wing Thye Woo

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Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development

Wing Thye Woo is an expert on the East Asian economies, particularly China, Indonesia and Malaysia. He has advised the U.S. Treasury Department, the IMF, World Bank and the United Nations. He specializes in exchange rates, economic growth, regional economic disparity and financial sector development. | View Full Bio

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Contact

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202.797.6105 — Brookings Office of Communications

Resources

Expertise

  • Economic issues of East Asia (particularly China and Indonesia)
  • International financial architecture
  • Economic growth
  • Exchange rate economics

Experience

Current Positions

  • Professor, Department of Economics, University of California at Davis
  • Director, East Asia Program, Center for Globalisation and Sustainable Development, Columbia University

Past Positions

  • Special Advisor for East Asian Economies in the Millennium Project of the United Nations (2002-2005)
  • Special Advisor to the U.S. Treasury (1997-1998)
  • Consultant to China's Ministry of Finance (1994)

Education

  • Ph.D., M.A. (1982), Harvard University
  • M.A. (1978), Yale University
  • B.A., B.S. (1976), Swarthmore College

Language Fluency

  • Bahasa Indonesia
  • Bahasa Malaysia
  • Cantonese
  • Mandarin
  • Taiwanese

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