Yuen Yuen Ang

Yuen Yuen Ang is the Alfred Chandler Chair Professor of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University. She is a multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural scholar of adaptive political economy, specialising in China, with academic awards across the social sciences (political science, economics, sociology) and a record of public engagement and impact. Ang is the inaugural recipient of Theda Skocpol Prize, awarded by the American Political Science Association for “impactful contributions to comparative politics”, in addition to the Peter Katzenstein Prize (politics), Douglass North Prize (economics, “for the best book in organisational and institutional economics”), Alice Amsden Prize (socio-economics, for “best book that breaks new ground in the study of economic behaviour”), Viviana Zelizer Prize (economic sociology). She is the author of two award-winning books, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016) and China’s Gilded Age (2020).