Yun'e Peng

Yun'e Peng

Director, World Bank Studies Center
Address: School of Economics and Management,
Tong Ji University, 1239 Siping Road
Shanghai, China
Phone: 56663903
Mobile : 13901917718
Fax: 021-65402506
Email: pengyune@mail.tongji.edu.cn

PRESENT POSITION

• Professor of Economics, School of Economics and Management
• Director, The World Bank Studies Center, US-China Business Development Center, Tong Ji University, Shanghai, China
  
• Fellow, ARIES, Harvard University, USA
  
• Vice President, Shanghai International Studies Association
  
• Consultant, Shanghai Investment Consulting Corporation

OTHER POSITIONS AND MEMBERSHIP HELD:

• Dean, College of International Economics and Management ,Shanghai Tiedao University (1992-1999)
  
• Consultant, The World Bank (in Washington, D.C. from 1986 – 1988, for Regional Office in China from 1989 to 1997 and 2004)
  
• Director, World Bank Training Courses of Project Management for Senior Officials of PRC in Washington D.C. and China from 1981 to 1997 by the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank
  
• Visiting Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada (1994-1995)
  
• Visiting Professor, Charles Sturt University, Australia (2000-2002)
  
• Senior Adviser, Schroders Group, plc. UK (1995-2001)
  
• Director, China Transportation and Communication Association (1991-2002)
  
• Advisor, China International Engineering Consulting Corp., State Planning Commission of the State Council, Beijing (1989-1998)
  

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Global Economy
  
• International Finance
  
• Project Management
  
• Economics of Investment
  
• Investment Banking Business
  
• Economics of Transportation.
  
  

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

• China: Headed for Crisis? (Interview by Business Week, May 3, 2004 Issue USA)
  
• Key to the Financing of the World Expo, 2010, Shanghai (2004)
  
• World Expo 2010, an impetus to the new round development of Shanghai (2003)
  
• Financing: Leverage to the World Expo 2010, Shanghai ( “Convention Fortune Magazine”2003)
  
• The Financing of US$3Billion for the Bidding of the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai (presentation to the BIE, Bureau of International Exposition) (2002)
  
• Culture in Silicon Valley, California (2001)
  
• The World Bank: Policy and Project Management
  
• To share the world market by Shanghai’s unique advantages (2001)
  
• Economic Globalization: Features and Trends (2001)
  
• To Build Shanghai into an International Financial Center (2001)
  
• China’s Transportation System in the Asia Financial Crisis (1999)
  

INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES:

2004-2005

• Presentations on “Development Strategy of Shanghai” to Delegation of fund managers from the United States, organized by Citigroup, USA
  
• Presentation on “Business Opportunity in China” to Lido Capital from California
  
• Presentation on “Current Economy and Business Culture in China” to TRW Automotive of the United States.

2003-2000

• Chair: “CEPA: Business Opportunities to Hong Kong and Shanghai”
  
• Chair: International Engineering Consultancy Forum of Sustainable Development of Shanghai, jointly sponsored by Shanghai Municipal Government and FIDIC (Federation of International Engineering Consulting Associations)
  
• Chair: The fourth International Symposium of China and Republic of Korea on the Transportation.
  
• Director and Lecturer, Investment Management Course at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. for the Senior Officials from the Shanghai Municipal Government
  
• Presentation on China and Shanghai Economic Development at the World Expo in Hanover, Germany 2000-1995
  2000-1995
  
• Guest Speaker at the World Economic Forum Summit Conference on “ Where China Stands in Science and What Does That Mean to Business”.
  
• Chair on International Symposium on International Transportation Development in Seoul, Korea
  
• Speaker on China’s Economy at the APEC meeting in Auckland, New Zealand
  
• Attending the APEC meeting as the guest of the Australian Government
  
• Guest Speaker: China’s Transitional Economy and Transportation (San Francisco, New York)
  
• Visiting Professor, lecturing on China’s Economic Reform and Development at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  
• Guest Speaker at International Forum, Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania
  

MAJOR AWARDS:

• The Special Contribution Award for Outstanding Contribution in Education by the State Council, The Central Government of China (1991)
  
• The Development Contribution Award by the State Planning Commission of the State Council, The Central government of China (1993)
  
  

MAJOR ROJECTS ACHIEVEED:

• Advised and assisted the State Planning Commission, Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Railways of the State Council of China to negotiate and finalized the first, second and third railway project agreements with the World Bank, totaling US$ 700 million from 1982 to 1987.
  
• Advised and assisted Schroders Merchant Bank Group plc. of UK to set up its offices in China and to get a number of deals of IPO of H Shares of China’s railways and highways projects in Hong Kong and a number of joint venture projects, and helped promote Schroders in China.
  

EDUCATION:

• Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, Boston, USA
  
• M.A. Economics, People’s University of China
  
• B.A. Economics, Tsinghua University, Beijing
  
• Department of Economics, St. John’s University, Shanghai, China