Yuen Yuen Ang

Yuen Yuen Ang is the Alfred Chandler Chair Professor of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University. Ang’s work opens new ways of thinking for a disrupted, multipolar world — marrying deep China expertise with big-picture insights on global transformation and thought. Her books — How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016) and China’s Gilded Age (2020) — applied the lens of AIM (Adaptive, Inclusive, Moral) Political Economy in the context of China’s capitalist revolution, challenging Western-centric and mechanical development models. Her scholarship has received awards across disciplines — including political science, sociology and economics — with prize committees recognising it as “field-shifting” and “game-changing”. At Johns Hopkins, she directs both The Polytunity Project and The Multipolar World & US-China Roundtables. The latter convenes experts across backgrounds in Washington, DC to explore US-China relations in an age of multipolarity and disruptive technology. Ang is from Singapore. To learn more, visit her official website at https://www.yuenyuenang.org/.