Prof. Thomas J. Sargent
Nobel Laureate
Professor of Economics, New York University
Director of Sargent Institute of Quantitative Economics and Finance, Peking University
Prof. Thomas J. Sargent is a Professor of Economics at New York University and the Director of Sargent Institute of Quantitative Economics and Finance at Peking University HSBC Business School. He was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics, shared with Princeton University’s Christopher Sims, “for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy.” He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, winning the medal as the university’s most distinguished scholar in the Class of 1964, and obtained his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1968. He has been Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota, the David Rockefeller Professor at the University of Chicago, and the Donald Lucas Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He has been a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1987. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Econometric Society. He has been President of the American Economic Association, the Econometric Society, and the Society for Economic Dynamics. In his Nobel speech in Stockholm he described himself as someone who aspires to use statistics and economic theory to understand how governments and markets can improve peoples’ lives.
Prof. Chew Soo Hong
Provost's Chair Professor of Economics, National University of Singapore
Fellow, Econometric Society
Chew Soo Hong is a Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. He received his Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies from the University of British Columbia and has previously taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), University of California, Irvine, Johns Hopkins University and University of Arizona. He is among the pioneers in axiomatic non-expected utility models and is a fellow of the Econometric Society which awarded him the Leonard J. Savage thesis prize. He has previously directed HKUST's Center for Experimental Business Research and is co-director of NUS' Lab for Behavioral x Biological Economics and the Social Sciences which aims to bring together genomics, neuroscience, decision theory, and behavioral and experimental economics to seek a deeper understanding of decision making at the neural and molecular levels. Chew has published in well-regarded journals in economics such as Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of the European Economic Association, and Journal of Economic Theory as well as more biology-oriented ones including Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Neuron, and Neuroimage.
Prof. Yongmiao Hong
Ernest S. Liu Professor of Economics and International Studies at Cornell University
Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
Fellow, Econometric Society
Professor Hong is currently the Ernest S. Liu Professor of Economics and International Studies in the Department of Economics at Cornell University. He is also a Professor of Statistics and a field member in the Department of Statistical Science and a field member in the Center of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. Professor Hong is a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He served as the President of Chinese Economists Society in North America in 2009-2010. He publishes refereed articles in mainstream economic, financial and statistical journals such as Annals of Statistics, Biometrika, Econometric Theory, Econometrica, International Economic Review, Journal of American Statistical Association, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Royal Statistical Society (Series B), Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Review of Financial Studies. His most recent book is Probability and Statistics for Economists (World Scientific Publishing Company, 2017).
