Senior Research Scholar, SCCEI, Stanford University
Visiting Professor, Finance Department, Imperial College London
Honorary Professor, AGI, University of Hong Kong
Awards
2016 The first recipient of China Economics Prize for contributions in understanding government and enterprise incentive mechanisms for the transition economy of China.
2013 Sun Yefang Prize in Economics (the most prestige prize in economics in China) [2013年孙冶芳经济学论文奖] for The Fundamental Institutions of China’s Reforms and Development（《中国改革和发展的基础性制度》）published in Journal of Economic Literature, 49, No. 4, Dec. 2011.
RGC Theme-based Research Scheme (TRS) Project on “Enhancing Hong Kong’s Future as a Leading International Financial Centre” (T31-717 112-R), HK$15.365 million (including on-cost), from 1 Aug 2012 to 31 Jul 2017. As a co-Principal Investigator and a Managing Committee member.
RGC General Research Fund (Project #: 756711), “Chinese Local Governments, Industrial Clusters, and Regional Disparities,”2011-2014. HK$924,805. As the Principal Investigator.
Entry in Who’s Who in the World, since 2011 (28th) Edition (the Marquis Who’s Who)
The “World Class University” program grant, “The Economics of Transition and Catching-up Growth: Institutions, Policies and North Korea,” (grant R32-2008-000-20055-0) for the years of 2010 to 2014 from the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation funded by the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (joined with B-Y Kim and Keun Lee of Seoul National University): 9.3 million HKD equivalent (or 1.2 million USD). Associated with this the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology awarded him a title of “World Class University Professor”
Elected as “the Professor of the Year” for 2007-08, the HKUST International EMBA Program, 2008.
ESRC (Economics and Social Science Research Council) Grant (with Panicos Demetriades), RES-156-25-0009 “National and International Aspects of Financial Development,” 200,000 GBP (2.7 million HKD), 2005-2008.
Phare ACE Programme (European Commission) Grant (with Gerard Roland), 1997-1999
ESRC (Economics and Social Science Research Council) Grant (with A.Hussain and D.Quah), 1995-97
ESRC (Economics and Social Science Research Council, the UK Government) Award, 1993-1994
The Second National Prize of Sciences (China) (Co-winner) (for the book History of Science and Technology in the Twentieth Century), 1989.
Harvard-Yenching Doctorate Fellowship.