Lin Yifu Economist Lin Yifu Name: Lin Yifu Gender: Male Date of Birth: October 15, 1952 Title: Professor Position: Director Research fields: Development economics, agricultural economics, institutional economics Work unit: Peking University China Economic Research Center Individual

Resume: Lin Yifu, male, born on October 15, 1952, native place: Yilan, Taiwan.

He was a member of the 7th, 8th and 9th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and is currently the director, professor and doctoral supervisor of the China Economic Research Center of Peking University.

Educational background: Bachelor of Agricultural Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1971; Master of Business Administration, National Chengchi University, 1978.

Master of Political Economics, Department of Economics, Peking University, 1982.

PhD, Department of Economics, University of Chicago, 1986.

Postdoctoral fellow at Yale University Economic Development Center, 1987.

Work resume: From 1987 to 1990, he served as deputy director of the Development Research Institute of the Rural Development Research Center of the State Council. From 1990 to 1993, he served as deputy director of the Rural Department of the Development Research Center of the State Council. From 1994 to present, he served as director of the China Economic Research Center of Peking University.

Part-time jobs at home and abroad: Part-time professor at Xiamen University in 2001- Part-time professor at Fudan University in 2000- Part-time professor at Zhejiang University in 1999- Professor in the Department of Economics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1995- Visiting associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, USA, 1990-93.

Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Duke University, USA, 1994.

Adjunct Professor, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, 1990-96.

Director of the Expert Committee of the China Human Rights Development Foundation, 2001- Academic Advisor of the World Trade Organization Research Society, 2001- Executive Director of the Fourth Council of the China Grain Economics Society, 2001- Expert Advisory Committee of the Beijing Municipal People's Government, 2001- National Development Planning Commission"

Member of the Standing Council of the Tenth Five-Year Plan Review Conference, 2000- Member of the Senior Advisory Group of the Asian Development Bank’s Long-term Strategic Framework, 2000; Member of the Second National Soft Science Research Steering Committee of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, 1999- Executive Director of the China Development Research Foundation

Director, 2000- Member of the Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Zone High-tech Steering Committee, 1999-.

Member of the Third Soft Science Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture of China, 1999- Member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Economics, Deputy Secretary-General, 1992- Consultant of the World Bank, 1987-90, 1993-.

Member of the Senior Advisory Group of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, 1995-.

Member of the Technical Advisory Group of the International Organization for Agricultural Research, 1996-.

Member of the Leading Group of the FAO Asia-Pacific Agricultural Policy Network, 1993-.

Member of the Permanent Leadership Group of the Pacific Conference on Trade and Development, 1993-.

Member, Economic and Environmental Program Leading Group, International Economic Development Research Center, 1994-96.

Member of the Standing Committee of the China Grain Economics Society, 1994-.

Director of the East Asian Economic Association (overseas), 1995 - Member of the preparatory group for the 11th World Congress of the International Economic Association (Tunisia), 1995.

Member of the preparatory group for the Tokyo Roundtable Conference on East Asian Economic Development of the International Economic Association, 1996.

Course director of the training course for central banks of 17 countries in East Asia, New Zealand and Australia, 1996.

Expert, Hong Kong Research Grants Committee, 1995-.

Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Agricultural Economics (English, Journal of the International Society of Agricultural Economics), 1995-.

Editorial board member of the following overseas English academic journals: Asian Case Studies (Singapore), Seoul Journal of Economics (South Korea), Pacific Economic Review (United States), China Economic Review (United States), Asia Pacific Economic Literature (Australia), Hong Kong Journal of Business Administration (

Hongkong).

Editorial board member of the following Chinese academic journals: Economic Research, Comparative Economic and Social Systems, Chinese Rural Economy, Chinese Social Science Quarterly.

Honors: The article "China's Rural Reform and Agricultural Growth" published in the American Economic Review in 1992 was rated by the American Institute of Scientific Information as one of the most cited papers published in international economics journals from 1980 to 1998.

Awarded the Classic Citation Award.

"Rediscussing Institutions, Technology and China's Agricultural Development" won the first prize of the 7th Peking University Scientific Research Book Award, 2000.