Yuen Yuen Ang — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Recipient of the 2017 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize, 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, 2020 Theda Skocpol Prize, and 2022 Douglass North Best Book Prize.
Alfred Chandler Chair Professor of Political Economy at The Johns Hopkins University since 2023.
Developed the 'AIM (Adaptive, Inclusive, Moral) Political Economy' paradigm and the concept of 'directed improvisation' for China's economic policymaking.
Author of *How China Escaped the Poverty Trap* (2016) and *China's Gilded Age* (2020).
Serves as a Trustee of the Trust Principles at Thomson Reuters since 2023.
Holds a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University (2010).

Biography

Yuen Yuen Ang is the Alfred Chandler Chair Professor of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University, a position she has held since 2023. Her cross-disciplinary research, which focuses on the interactions between industrial development, technological innovation, and political structures with an emphasis on China, has earned multiple awards across political science, sociology, and economics.