The Stanford Center for International Development (SCID) has established a
Memorial Award and Lecture Series to celebrate the life and accomplishments of
Huang Lian, who was a doctoral student from the People's Republic of China. He
enrolled in the Economics Department at Stanford University in the fall of 1997
after completing a Master’s degree from the Graduate School of the People's
Bank of China. Talented and diligent, Huang Lian came to the United States to
seek higher professional training, and planned a career in China working on
economic policy. In June 1999, he died in a tragic accident. SCID founded a lecture
series as a memorial.
The fifteenth annual event will take place at Stanford on
April 13, 2015. Please join us for a lecture by Professor Chong-En Bai, Mansfield
Freeman Chair Professor, Associate Dean, Chairman of the Economics
Department in the School of Economics and Management, Director of the
National Institute for Fiscal Studies, at Tsinghua University. Professor Bai will be
the invited recipient of the Huang Lian Award and will deliver the Huang Lian
Memorial address, entitled From Special Treatment to Equal Treatment: Toward
a More Solid Institutional Foundation of China’s Economic Development
Professor Chong-En Bai
Professor Bai earned his Bachelor in Mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1983
where he won the Guo Mo-ruo Prize, which is awarded to the top graduate of each department in the university.
Professor Bai received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1993, after earning a Ph.D. in Mathematics
from University of California, San Diego in 1988. Before joining Tsinghua University in 2004, Professor Bai was on the
faculty of Boston College and the University of Hong Kong. He was appointed as Chair of the Department of
Economics of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University in 2005, and Associate Dean of the
School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University in 2009. Professor Bai was selected as a Cheung Kong
Scholar by the Ministry of Education of China in 2006 and received the Distinguished Young Scholar Grant from the
National Science Foundation of China in the same year. Professor Bai won the inaugural Pu Shan—Bank of China
Best Paper Award by the China Society of World Economics in 2008, the 13th Sun Yefang Best Economics Paper
Award in 2009, and the 4th Zhang Pei-gang Award for Outstanding Achievements in Development Economics in
2012.
Monday, April 13, 2015
Reception 4:30 pm | Lecture 5:00 pm
John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building
366 Galvez Street
Stanford, CA 94305
RSVP here or to Geraldine Solon ([email protected]) by April 6