Shang-Jin Wei

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

Shang-Jin Wei is an expert on U.S.-China economic integration and other international finance and trade issues. His current projects include an examination of outsourcing and its effect on productivity and employment. His is a former advisor to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Wei left Brookings in June 2008.

Topics: China; Global Development; Global Governance & Politics
Additional Expertise Areas: China; Emerging markets; Exchange rates; Foreign direct investment; Globalization; International finance and trade; U.S.-China economic integration
Current Positions: Adviser, International Monetary Fund; Director of China Project and Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research; Research Fellow, Harvard University's Center for International Development; Research Felllow, Center for Economic Policy Research (Europe)
Past Positions: Associate Professor and Assistant Professor, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government; Advisor, World Bank
Education: Ph.D. (1992), M.S. (1991), University of California at Berkeley; M.A., Pennsylvania State University, 1988; B.A., Fudan University, 1986