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Zhiming Cheng is a Professor of Economics and Director of Research Training at the Department of Management, Macquarie Business School. He holds adjunct roles at UNSW Sydney (Adjunct Associate Professor and former UNSW Scientia Associate Professor of Economics and Social Policy). His research focuses on migration economics, labor markets, entrepreneurship in urban China, and policy analysis. He has published over 90 articles in top journals like Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization and Energy Economics.
Key roles include Associate Editor of the International Journal of Manpower, Fellow of the Global Labor Organization, and elected member of the Global Young Academy. He has received prestigious awards such as the Australia-China Joint Action Program Award (2011) and the PAFTAD Fellowship (2013). His research is funded through two ARC Discovery Projects totaling AUD$838,422, focusing on migrant aging and China's internal migration patterns.
Zhiming has held fellowships at Harvard University (Jacob Wertheim Fellow) and the Bank of Finland. His work bridges theoretical econometrics with policy-relevant topics, including energy poverty, gender wage gaps, and school feeding programs' socioeconomic impacts. He actively supervises PhD students in causal inference methodologies.
