Albert Park

Albert Park is a development and labor economist who is an expert on China’s economic development. He is Head and Chair Professor of Economics, Chair Professor of Social Science, Professor of Public Policy, and Director of the Center for Economic Policy at HKUST. His research and commentary has appeared in the Economist, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, China Daily, BBC, CNN, NBC, Bloomberg, Freakonomics, and NPR.

Park is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Bonn), the International Growth Centre (Oxford/LSE/DFID), and the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group (Chicago). He co-chairs the Academic Committee of the China Economics Summer Institute, chairs the International Advisory Committee of the China-Russia Eurasian Studies Center, and serves on the Leadership Council of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Hong Kong and on the International Advisory Council of the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO.

In recent years he has published articles in leading economics journals on firm performance, poverty and inequality, migration and employment, health and education, and the economics of aging in China. He is an editor of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance and on the editorial boards of the World Bank Economic Review, Cambridge University Press Elements Series in the Economics of Emerging Markets, Asian Development Review, China Economic Journal, China Policy Journal, and China Agricultural Economics Review. Park has played a leadership role in numerous survey research projects in China including the China Employer-Employee Survey (CEES), the China Urban Labor Survey (CULS), the Gansu Survey of Children and Families (GSCF), and the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS).

He previously held faculty appointments at the University of Michigan and Oxford University, and has consulted frequently for the World Bank.