Nancy Qian

Nancy Qian is the James J. O’Connor Professor of Economics at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, in the managerial economics and decision sciences department. Qian holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a Harvard Academy postdoctoral fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Studies at Harvard University. She is one of the most highly cited economists today. She co-directs the Global Poverty Research Lab, for which she founded the China Cluster. She also founded the independent China Econ Lab. Her work has been covered in media outlets such as NPR, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and the BBC. She regularly engages with high-level policymakers and business leaders about geo-political risk and the global economy, especially with respect to China. She is a regular columnist for Project Syndicate and Bloomberg, and she is writing her first book with the University of Chicago Press, with the working title “Inglorious Nations: The Rise, Fall and Reinvention of Large Civilizations.”