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Yuen Yuen Ang is the Alfred Chandler Chair Professor of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University. She is a leading scholar on China’s political economy, development, and governance, with her research spanning political science, economics, and sociology. She is the author of the acclaimed books How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016) and China’s Gilded Age (2020), both named "game-changing" and recommended by The Economist.
Her research interests include political economy, adaptive governance, institutional development, crony capitalism, innovation policy, and US-China relations. She has developed key concepts such as "directed improvisation" and "adaptive political economy" to explain China’s development model and to propose new frameworks for development thinking in a disrupted world.
Her recent publications explore China’s economic paradox of high-tech growth amid stagnation, the limits of mechanical thinking in development, and the need for systemic change in response to the polycrisis. Her work emphasizes complexity, adaptation, and the value of non-Western solutions, challenging mainstream development paradigms rooted in Western-centric and industrial-colonial mindsets.
Ang has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Theda Skocpol Prize, Peter Katzenstein Prize, Viviana Zelizer Prize, Douglass North Award, Alice Amsden Award, and the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. Her research is supported by the US National Science Foundation, and she contributes to public debate through outlets such as Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, and Project Syndicate.
She serves as a Trustee of the Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company, promoting journalistic integrity, and has advised the US State Department and international organizations like UNDP. She leads the "World and US-China" Dinner Roundtable Series in Washington, DC, and frequently speaks at global forums. A Singaporean citizen, she holds a PhD from Stanford University and a BA from Colorado College.
