Justin Lin

I joined the World Bank as Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics in June, 2008, after serving for 15 years as Professor and Founding Director of the China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University, from where I am currently on leave. I have a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago and have written a number of books on China, including The China Miracle: Development Strategy and Economic Reform, and State-owned Enterprise Reform in China. As the World Bank's first chief economist from the developing world, I have a deep interest in climate change, which is an evolving crisis poised to affect many developing countries. I am particularly concerned that global warming caused by unmanaged climate change could reverse the hard-earned development gains of the past decades and progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals in many places. But every crisis is also an opportunity. That's why we need ideas---and conversations about them.