Education
90- 92 Master of Science in Statistical Computing, Department of Math/Stat, The American university Washington, DC 20016
82- 84 Graduate Program in MBA, Department of Management, HuazhongUniversity of Sciences & Technology. Wuhan, China.
78 -82 Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics, Xiamen (Amoy) University. Xiamen, Fujian, China.
Working experience
Guest Professor (August 2019-) , Gregory and Paula Chow Center for Economic Research (GCCER) and School of Economics, Xiamen University.
Lead Statistician (March 2014- May 2019), Development Research Group, theWorld Bank, Washington DC 20433, U.S.A.
Senior Statistician (July 2002 - March 2014), Development Research Group, the World Bank, Washington DC 20433, U.S.A.
Information Officer (Feb. 1999 -Jun. 2002), Development Research Group, the World Bank, Washington DC 20433, U.S.A.
Visiting professor (Oct. 2017-Jan. 2018), Economics Department, Nagoya University
University Lecturer (1985-89) Department of Management, Huazhong University of Science & Technology.
Member of Global Poverty Commission
Awards
VPU Team Award 2017, “Poverty and Shared prosperity report: Talking on Inequality”
VPU Team Award 2016, new version of PovcalNet and Global Poverty Monitoring
VPU Team Award 2015, Policy Research Report, “A Measured Approach to Ending Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity”
VPU Team Award 2015, “Global Monitoring Report 2015”
VPU Team Award 2013, 'The Poverty and Shared Prosperity Indictors and Target”, and “The Global Poverty Working Group”
VPU Team Award 2011, Global poverty monitoring and PovcalNet
Elsevier’s Economics & Finance Journals Most Cited Articles 2005-2009, “China’s (uneven) progress against poverty”, 2010
The World Bank Performance Award, 1999/2000
The scholarship of “Hall of Nation”, The American university, 1990-92