Two Carleton professors elected to prestigious Chinese society

Source: Exchange Magazaine – News Release
Friday, August 14, 2009

Ottawa – Carleton University Professor Yanling Wang has been chosen as president-elect and Professor Zhiqi Chen as the vice-president of the prestigious Chinese Economists Society (CES). Professor Wang is from Carleton’s renowned Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA), while Professor Chen is with the prominent Department of Economics.

“This is another example of Carleton University playing an integral and vital role on the global front,” says Fen Hampson, director of NPSIA.

CES’s distinguished advisory committee welcomes Nobel laureates and leading scholars in economics and management.  This non-profit, academic organization promotes market-based economic reforms and open-door policies in China, expands
academic exchanges between China and the outside world, and engages in scholarly studies of the Chinese economy.

In addition to other publications, it publishes China Economic Review, an academic English journal that has become the authoritative academic publication about the Chinese economy. More than 2,000 economists have joined CES worldwide.

Yanling Wang joined Carleton in 2003 and is now an associate professor. In 2008, she was a visiting scholar at Nankai University in China. She has worked as a research fellow at Statistics Canada, as a consultant for the World Bank and researcher for the State Economic and Trade Commission in China. Her research examines the empirical effects associated with international trade and  foreign direct investment.

Zhiqi Chen has twice held the T.D. MacDonald Chair in Industrial Economics at the Canadian Competition Bureau. He joined Carleton in 1991, after obtaining his PhD from the University of Western  Ontario. He is a Carleton alumnus having received an MA in 1987. His research looks at industrial organization, antitrust economics, growth theory and international trade. His biography has been featured in the Canadian Who’s Who and Who’s Who in Canadian Business.

In June, Carleton’s Department of Economics launched the Centre for Monetary and Financial Economics (CMFE). Its mandate is to generate and disseminate leading-edge knowledge and research on monetary and financial economics and related fields in other disciplines that will inform the Canadian public and policy-makers about pressing economic issues of the day. The CMFE will host academic and public-policy movers and shakers in order to help people understand the impact of complex economic developments on their daily lives.

The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA) offers the oldest Master of Arts degree program in International Affairs in Canada. The School was founded in 1965 through a donation from the late Senator Norman Paterson.  It now boasts more than 2,000 alumni around the world, many of whom are distinguished diplomats, international public  servants, aid workers, lobbyists, bankers, corporate public affairs officers, academics, journalists and consultants. The  School publishes Canada’s premier publication on foreign affairs, Canada Among Nations. Earlier this year, NPSIA and its Centre for Trade Policy and Law received international attention when they released From Correct to Inspired: A Blueprint for Canada-US Engagement, designed to develop a blueprint for a Canadian agenda with the United States focused on bilateral and global prosperity and security issues.