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On August 10, the official website of Liaoning University announced that recently, Wing Thye WOO, a world-renowned Chinese economist and distinguished professor of the Department of Economics at the University of California, Davis, officially signed a contract to join Liaoning University full-time as a full-time professor at the China Economic Research Institute (CERI) of Liaoning University.

Professor Wu Yongtai

Hu Yongtai was born in George Town, Malaysia. He graduated from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, USA in 1976 with a bachelor's degree in economics and a bachelor's degree in engineering. He received a master's degree in economics from Yale University in 1978 and a master's and doctoral degree in economics from Harvard University in 1982. He is a disciple of Professor Jeffrey Sachs, a Nobel Prize winner in economics and a well-known expert on global development issues.

He is currently the Vice Chairman of the Asia Region of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), a distinguished researcher at Penang College in Georgetown, Malaysia, a visiting professor at the University of Malaya, a visiting professor at Sunway University in Malaysia, and a visiting professor at the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He also serves as the Chairman of the Chinese Economists Association in the United States (CEANA) and the Chairman of the Chinese Economists Society (CES). He has also served as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, director of the East Asia Program at the Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development at Columbia University, and executive chairman of the Penang Institute in Malaysia.