Brief Introduction of Prof.Dr. Huang Haifeng

    Domestic Activities: Dr. Huang Haifeng has been Director of The China Research Center for Economic Transition at the Beijing University of Technology since October 2003. In 2002 Dr. Huang was the former Deputy Director of the Beijing WTO Affairs Research & Consulting Center and Senior Adviser of the Stock Exchange Executive Council (SEEC). He participated in the China’s WTO entry negotiations and wrote the 1st draft of The Beijing Action Program for Transition for Post WTO China. Dr. Huang is an economic advisor for both Hainan Province and Qingdao City and acts as a research fellow at several Chinese institutions such as Beijing and Renmin Universities and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He has organized conferences such as the International Forum on China’s Financial Risk Management (Beijing 2002), The Chinese and Foreign Financial Specialists Summit (Beijing 2002), The WTO and Financial Risk Management (2002 Qingdao) and The Beijing International Forum on China’s Entry into the WTO (Beijing 2002).

    International Activities: Dr. Huang is Vice President of the US based Association of Chinese Financial Professionals, a co-director of the Chinese Alumni Association at the Johns Hopkins Center at Nanjing University and Humboldt University and senior researcher of the International Law Development Organization in Rome. Between 2000 and 2003 he was a visiting scholar at Free and Humboldt Universities in Berlin and the Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific at the University of Sydney. He also served as a senior program manager, teacher, and consultant in Germany, France and the United States. Dr. Huang has also led international research projects on venture capital, financial risk management and economic transformation.

   Education: Dr. Huang obtained his Ph.D. from Humboldt University in Berlin in 2000 and has studied at Beijing University, the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies and the University of Hawai’i. Dr. Huang has received grants from the German Research Society (DFG) and the Ford Foundation. He received certificates from a WTO advanced training program in Australia and an investment lawyer’s course in Rome sponsored by the International Law Development Organization.

    Publications: Dr. Huang is widely published in the Chinese, English and German languages on subjects ranging from economic transition to cross-cultural management. His publications include Wirtschaftstranformation auf Regionaler Ebene in China (2000), China’s Digital Dream (2002), Jinrongye De Xinxihua Zhingxing (2004), and Online Trading in China’s Security Industry (2004), A DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN CHINA (2004).