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QIAN Yingyi is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Tsinghua University. He holds the title of Distinguished Professor of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Tsinghua University. QIAN graduated from Tsinghua University in Mathematics and earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University after obtaining an M.Phil. in Management Science/Operations Research from Yale University and an M.A. in Statistics from Columbia University. He has served as a faculty member at Stanford University, the University of Maryland, and the University of California, Berkeley. QIAN was the Dean of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University from 2006 to 2018. His research interests include comparative economics, institutional economics, economics of transition, the Chinese economy, and education in China. He has authored the book How Reform Worked in China: The Transition from Plan to Market and has published in journals such as The American Economic Review and The Quarterly Journal of Economics.