Dr. Zhi Wang is a Lead international economist at Research Division, Office of Economics, U.S. International Trade Commission. He obtained his Ph.D in applied economics at University of Minnesota with a minor in computer and information sciences in 1994 and worked as a consultant for the World Bank in the World Development Report, 1995. Since then, he had worked as an economist at Purdue University, Economic Research service (ERS) of U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) of U.S. Department of Commerce, and as a senior research scientist at School of Computational Sciences of Gorge Mason University before he joint USITC in 2005. He was a research fellow at Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences before he came to the United States and served on the board of directors of the Chinese Economists Society (CES) during 1992-93. His major fields of expertise include computable general equilibrium modeling, value chain in global production network, data reconciliation methods, economic integration among Greater China area, Chinese economies, and international trade. Because of his contribution to the GTAP database and to its use in contemporary policy applications, and his methodological contributions in reconciling re-export trade data, he was selected as Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) Research Fellow three times in 2000-2003, 2007-2010 and 2011-2014. He also served in Fulbright senior scholar program offering general equilibrium trade policy analysis classes at Chengchi University in Taipei and Tsinghua University in Beijing during 2005 and 2007 respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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