Stanford Center on China's Economy & Institutions 2021 Meet and Greet
Wednesday, February 17, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Pacific)
Zoom Meeting
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021 | 11:00 - 12:00 pm Pacific Time
SCCEI Co-Directors Hongbin Li and Scott Rozelle will share the motivation, mission, and vision for the new center. They will then be joined by SCCEI faculty affiliates for a panel discussion on their current and future research plans related to SCCEI's six flagship research initiatives.
This event is by invitation only and has limited space, if you would like to attend please reach out to Heather Rahimi to inquire about an invitation.
SCCEI Directors
Scott Rozelle holds the Helen Farnsworth Endowed Professorship at Stanford University and is Senior Fellow in the Food Security and Environment Program and the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) for International Studies. For the past 30 years, he has worked on the economics of poverty reduction. Currently, his work on poverty has its full focus on human capital, including issues of rural health, nutrition and education. For the past 20 year, Rozelle has been the chair of the International Advisory Board of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). In recent years Rozelle spends most of his time co-directing the Rural Education Action Project (REAP). In recognition of this work, Dr. Rozelle has received numerous honors and awards. Among them, he became a Yangtse Scholar (Changjiang Xuezhe) in Renmin University of China in 2008. In 2008 he also was awarded the Friendship Award by Premiere Wen Jiabao, the highest honor that can be bestowed on a foreigner.
Hongbin’s research has been focused on the transition and development of the Chinese economy, and the evidence-based research results have been both widely covered by media outlets and well read by policy makers around the world. He is currently the co-editor of the Journal of Comparative Economics.