Hong Kong SAR
Heiwai Tang is Associate Vice President of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), Director of the Asia Global Institute, as well as Associate Dean and Victor and William Fung Professor in Economics at HKU Business School. Prior to joining HKU, he was tenured Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and Research Fellow of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the Center of Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESIfo) in Germany, as well as the Globalization and Economic Policy Center in the U.K. He has been a consultant to the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, and held visiting positions at the IMF, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Harvard University. He is currently Managing Editor of Pacific Economic Review, and Associate Editor of the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Comparative Economics and the China Economic Review. Since 2021, he has served on a number of public bodies, including the Currency Board Sub-Committee of the HKMA’s Exchange Fund Advisory Committee, the Industry Advisory Committee of HKSAR's Industry Advisory and HKSAR's Minimum Wage Commission. Tang received his Ph.D. in economics from MIT. His research interests span a wide range of theoretical and empirical topics in international trade. His recent research studies how a country’s domestic institutions shape its comparative advantage; how firms learn from their neighbors to export; how China successfully moved up the global value chains; and how exporting and foreign direct investment enhance firm performance. His work has been published in leading journals in economics, including American Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, and Journal of Law and Economics
The AVP (Global) of HKU will assist the President in strengthening the University’s engagement with the international community and academia, promoting the University’s global presence, as well as other projects assigned.