Research Interests：

Development Economics

Courses Taught：

ISSCAD Doctoral Students: Development Policy Leadership

NSD Undergraduates and Interdisciplinary Talents: Public Policy Engagement

 

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

Professor Zhou Yongmei received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999, specializing in new institutional economics and development economics. She worked for the World Bank during 1999-2020. During 1999-2012, she served as a policy and institutional development advisor for government leaders in African and South Asian countries. During 2012-2014, she managed the Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group to make the World Bank a more effective development partner in fragile and conflict-affected states. She then served as a Co-director of the "2017 World Development Report-Governance and the Law", the World Bank annual flagship publication. From 2017 to 2020, she was based in Jakarta, Indonesia and led the largest country program in the World Bank on Economics, Finance and Institutions, responsible for an annual program of $1 billion development projects and US $12 million technical assistance on fiscal policy, public financial management, local governance, financial inclusion, and digital development. Since 2020, Prof. Zhou joined the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development as a Professor of Practice in Institutional Development and Director of Global Partnership. Her research interest focuses on policy effectiveness and institutional development.​

 EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Economics, University of California at Berkeley, 1999. Fields of Concentration: Development Economics and New Institutional Economics. Dissertation: Corruption and Public Spirit.

B.A. in International Finance, Renmin University of China, 1992

 

EMAIL ADDRESS: ymzhou@nsd.pku.edu.cn

PERSONAL PAGE：https://en.nsd.pku.edu.cn/faculty/fulltime/z/505898.htm