Pengzhan Qian

Pengzhan Qian serves as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Department of Economics at Royal Holloway, University of London, specializing in labor economics, macroeconomics, and structural modeling with significant contributions to gender and development economics.

His academic credentials include:

• Ph.D. in Economics, Queen Mary College, London (awarded November 15, 2024)
• M.Sc. in Economics, Queen Mary University of London (awarded July 1, 2018)
• B.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Science, Peking University (awarded July 1, 2015)

Dr. Qian's research centers on structural analysis of labor markets, particularly gender disparities in public sector employment across Sub-Saharan Africa. He integrates macroeconomic frameworks with development economics to address systemic barriers affecting women's workforce participation, emphasizing policy-relevant structural modeling approaches.

He leads the Leverhulme Trust-funded project "The Underrepresentation of Women in the Public Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa" (October 1, 2025–September 30, 2028), investigating institutional and socioeconomic drivers of gender gaps in public employment through empirical and theoretical methodologies.