Financial Systems at the Cross Road: Lessons for China's Choice

Yingli Pan
is the Director of Modern Finance Research Center, and Professor of Finance at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She is also the Executive Director of China World Economic Society, Vice President of Shanghai World Economic Society, Deputy Director of the Research Council for Shanghai International Financial Center, and Chief Economist of Shanghai Strategic Development Research Institute. Yingli Pan specialises in macroeconomics and financial markets and her most recent research in on international monetary system reform and RMB internationalization. She won the State Council Award in 1996 for pioneering contributions to the development of the social sciences in China.

Jeffrey David Sachs
is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. For more than 20 years, Jeffrey Sachs has been in the forefront of the challenges of economic development, poverty alleviation, and enlightened globalization, promoting policies to help all parts of the world to benefit from expanding economic opportunities and wellbeing. He is widely considered to be the leading international economic advisor of his generation. The New York Times called him the most important economist in the world and Time magazine described him as the world's best-known economist . He is presently engaged in the establishment of the worldwide UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

Junhui Qian
is the Assistant Director of the Modern Finance Research Center, and Associate Professor of Economics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received BE in Electrical Engineering from Harbin Engineering University in 1999, and PhD in Economics from Rice University in 2007. His research areas include econometric theory, international finance and Chinese monetary policy.