Honorary Director

Tan, Chongtai, Professor of Economics and Ph.D advisor, got his M.A. (1947) from Harvard University and his B.A. (1943) from Wuhan University. He is also Director of Institute for Development Economics Research and the founder and honorary Director of CEDR in Wuhan University, which is Key Research Institute in University. He is also Vice President of Chinese Research Association for Foreign Economics.

Prof. Tan is the first scholar who introduced Development Economics into China and his book Development Economics (1985) was the first academic one on Development Economics in China. He is also the first Ph.D advisor of Development Economics in China. Under Prof. Tan’s guidance, more than 50 Ph.Ds have graduated from Wuhan University and most of them have grown into intellectual researchers on Development Economics in China.

Prof. Tan and his students constitute a powerful research team in Development Economics. They wrote Development Economics (1989), History of Western Economic Development Ideas (1995), Frontier of Development Economics (1999). These academic books have been honored with highly awards and grants, such as Award of National Best Textbook, First Rate Prize of Research Achievement of Ministry of Education, Award of State’s Best Books, Second Rate Prize of National Social Sciences Fund Programs and other state-level important grants, for their contributions to the introduction and development of Development Economics in China. Prof. Tan has issued many important papers in Journal of Chinese Social Sciences, Economic Research Journal, and other important academic publications.

Honorary Professor

Dwight Heald Perkins is a Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy as well as a Frank W. Taussig Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and concurrently an Honorary Professor of the CEDR . He earned his Ph.D. degree in economics in 1956 at Harvard University.

Professor Perkins has a worldwide reputation for his academic contributions to the theory of development economics and to development policy for developing countries. From 1980 to 1995, he was the Director of Harvard Institute for International Development ( HIID ), which is Harvard's multidisciplinary institute for research, teaching and technical assistance on development policy to developing countries. Under his leadership, HIID has successfully grown into a world-famous institute with a faculty of over 100 full-time development professionals plus another 100 administrative staff working with governments and institutes in 19 developing countries.

During his 40 academic years, Professor Dwight H. Perkins has published more than 120 academic articles and several tens of books. He has been awarded important fellowships, medals and prizes of many kinds and has been conferred as honorary titles or assumed as chairmen in various professional associations or councils in U.S.A. or in the world.