Co-founders
Panle Barwick
Position title: Professor, Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished Chair
Email:
pbarwick
Phone: (608)264-2973
Address:
7422 Social Sciences Building
Panle Jia Barwick is the Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished Chair Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her areas of expertise include industrial organization, Chinese economy, environmental and…
Yongheng Deng
Position title: Professor, John P. Morgridge Distinguished Chair in Business
Email:
yongheng.deng
Phone: (608)262-4865
Address:
4110 Grainger Hall
Yongheng Deng is a Professor and the John P. Morgridge Distinguished Chair in Business, Chair of the Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics, and Director of the Global Real Estate Masters Program (GREM),…
Guanming Shi
Position title: Professor, Renk Agribusiness Chair
Email:
gshi
Phone: (608) 262-8966
Address:
433 Taylor Hall
Guanming Shi is a professor, the Renk Agribusiness Chair, and the Department Chair of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She is a core faculty member of the Initiative for…
Faculty affiliates - UW-Madison
Hengjie Ai
Position title: Robert M. Steiner Chair Professor in Business, Department Chair in Finance
Email:
hengjie.ai
Phone: 608-890-3881
Address:
5281 Grainger Hall
Hengjie Ai joins the Wisconsin School of Business in January 2022 as a professor in the Department of Finance. Professor Ai’s research interests include topics in asset pricing, corporate finance, and macroeconomic theory. His research…
Menzie Chinn
Position title: Professor of Public Affairs and Economics
Email:
mchinn
Phone: (608)262-7397
Address:
7470 Social Science Building
Menzie D. Chinn is Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin’s Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs. He is a co-editor of the Journal of International Money and Finance.…
Ian Coxhead
Position title: Emeritus Professor, Honorary Professor in the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics(Australian National University)
Email:
ian.coxhead
Ian Coxhead is a development economist. His research focuses on problems of globalization, growth, and development, mainly in East and Southeast Asia. He is employed at the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO) in Tokyo, Japan…
Sheldon (Xiaodong) Du
Position title: Professor
Email:
xdu23
Phone: (608) 262-0699
Address:
331 Taylor Hall
Xiaodong (Sheldon) Du is a professor in the Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in agricultural and energy economics. His research focuses on understanding production agriculture and its adaptation…
Chao Fu
Position title: Professor, Mary Claire Aschenbrener Phipps Distinguished Chair
Email:
cfu
Phone: (608) 263-3886
Address:
7464 Social Science Building
Chao Fu is the Mary Claire Aschenbrener Phipps Distinguished Chair in Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her broad research area is empirical microeconomics that combines economic theories and econometrics tools to study policy relevant…
Corbett Grainger
Position title: Professor
Email:
corbett.grainger
Phone: (608) 262-3651
Address:
412 Taylor Hall
His research focuses on understanding the distributional effects of regulations, property rights and institutions as well as the political economy of environmental and natural resource policy. Applications include ambient air pollution, climate change and rights-based…
Lu Han
Position title: Professor, Nathan F. Brand Chair in Real Estate
Email:
lu.han
Address:
5257 Grainger Hall
Lu Han is the Nathan F. Brand Chair Professor in Real Estate and Urban Economics at the Wisconsin School of Business. Prior to joining the faculty at UW-Madison, Han was a Professor and the Premier’s…
Allen Li
Position title: Michael and Mary Sue Shannon Professor
Email:
allen.li
Phone: (608) 263-4414
Address:
4285 Grainger Hall
Allen Li is the Michael and Mary Sue Shannon Professor and Associate Professor in the department of Operations and Information Management. His research focuses on digital platforms, digital transformation, and the regulation of the digital…
Priya Mukherjee
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
priya.mukherjee
Phone: (608) 262-8695
Address:
417 Taylor Hall
Priya Mukherjee is a development economist. Her research focuses on governance and institutions, as well as education and health policy, mainly in South and Southeast Asia. She is an assistant professor at the Department of Agricultural…
Dominic Parker
Position title: Anderson-Bascom Professor
Email:
dominic.parker
Phone: (608) 262-8916
Address:
413 Taylor Hall
Dominic is the Anderson-Bascom Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on environmental economics, economic development, and law and economics. His work aims to understand the intended and unintended effects…
Daniel Phaneuf
Position title: Henry C. Taylor Professor
Email:
dphaneuf
Phone: (608) 262-4908
Address:
405 Taylor Hall
Daniel is an environmental and resource economist whose research focuses on the United States. He is particularly interested in understanding the value of the environment, measured through decisions that involve interactions with the environment, such…
Laura Schechter
Position title: Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
Email:
lschechter
Phone: (608) 262-9482
Address:
334 Taylor Hall
Laura Schechter is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an international development economist whose research lies at the intersection of development economics and behavioral…
Chris Timmins
Position title: Gary J. Gorman Affordable Housing Professor
Email:
ctimmins
Address:
Grainger Hall
Christopher Timmins is the Gary J Gorman Affordable Housing Professor in the Real Estate and Urban Land Economics Department at the Wisconsin School of Business. Professor Timmins specializes in urban and environmental economics, but he…
Dayin Zhang
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
dayin.zhang
Address:
5261 Grainger Hall
Dayin Zhang joined the Wisconsin School of Business in August 2020 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics. His research interests include financial intermediation, real estate finance, and…
Faculty affiliates - External
Alberto E Brugarolas Salvo
Position title: Associate Professor (National University of Singapore), Dean’s Chair
Email:
albertosalvo
Environmental economist Alberto Salvo is an associate professor, Dean’s Chair, and Deputy Head for Research at the Department of Economics, National University of Singapore (NUS). He holds several appointments across NUS including serving on the…
Shanjun Li
Position title: Kenneth L. Robinson Professor (Cornell University)
Email:
sl2448
Phone: (607)255-1832
Shanjun Li is a Professor of Applied Economics and Policy, and he holds the Kenneth L. Robinson Chair in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. His research areas include environmental…
Paolo Martellini
Position title: Assistant Professor (NYU)
Email:
pm1987
Address:
44 West Fourth Street, 7-86
New York, NY 10012
Paolo Martellini joined New York University Stern School of Business as an Assistant Professor of Economics in August 2024. He conducts research in macroeconomics, labor economics, and urban economics. Before joining NYU Stern, he was…
Nancy Qian
Position title: James J. O'Connor Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences Co-Director, Global Poverty Research Lab (GPRL)
Email:
nancy.qian
Phone: (847)491-2531
Address:
Global Hub 4135
Nancy Qian is the James J. O’Connor Professor of Economics at Kellogg and a professor of the Department of Economics by courtesy appointment. She co-directs the Global Poverty Research lab, and founded China Econ Lab,…
Shaoda Wang
Credentials: University of Chicago
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
shaoda
Shaoda Wang is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He also serves as the Deputy…
Yang Yao
Credentials: Peking University
Position title: Professor, Director of China Center for Economic Research, Executive Director of Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development
Email:
yyao
Professor Yao Yang holds the position of Chair Professor of Economics at Peking University. He is also the Executive Director of the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development (ISSCAD), and Director of the China Center…
Yong Zhao
Position title: CEO of Nice Day Chinese and Junzi Kitchen, co-president of China Institute Next Gen with Serica (CINGS) and president of Asian American Hospitality Alliance (AAHA)
Email:
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While pursuing his Ph.D. in Environmental Science at Yale, Yong co-founded Junzi Kitchen in 2015, an award-winning Chinese fast-casual concept in New Haven and New York. During Covid pandemic, Yong also co-founded Nice Day Chinese,…