Professor Danyang Xie, Chair Professor of the Thrust of Innovation, Policy, and Entrepreneurship, the Society Hub, HKUST (Guangzhou); Chair Professor of Economics, HKUST. Between November 2019 and November 2023, he served as the Acting Dean and Founding Dean of the Society Hub, HKUST (GZ).
Danyang Xie received his Ph.D in Economics from the University of Chicago in 1992. His previous affiliations include University of Montreal (Assistant Professor, 1991-1994), the International Monetary Fund (Economist and Senior Economist, 2000-2004), Tsinghua University (Special Appointment Professor, 2002-2005), and Wuhan University (Dean of the Economics and Management School, 2014-2017). At HKUST (1993-2002, 2004-2024), he served as Department Head in Economics between April 2007 and June 2010 and Director of Shui On Centre for China Business and Management between May 2011 and July 2013.
In addition, Professor Xie has been serving as a financial consultant expert for the 14th Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress and the Deputy Director of the Sustainable Development Management Professional Committee of the China Management Science Society since 2023. From 2014 to 2020, he was a member of the Seventh Discipline Evaluation Group (Theoretical Economics) of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. From April 2019 to March 2022, he served as an academic advisor at the Institute of Politics and Economics at Nanjing Audit University.He had been a member of the Currency Board Sub-Committee of the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee between 2011 and 2016. He was an Independent Director of Bank of Communications-Schroders Fund Management Co. Ltd between 2011 and 2018.
His research interests include economic growth and development, macroeconomics, digital economy, innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as money and banking.