Lawrence J. Lau
Senior Fellow, Stanford Center for International Development
Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Economic Development
Senior Fellow SIEPR
Senior Fellow, The Institute for Internationals Studies (by courtesy)
Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution (by courtesy)

Relevant Work History:
1992 – 1996 Asia/Pacific Research Inst., Stanford Co-Director
1997 – 1999 Stanford Inst. For Economic Policy Reform Director

Degrees and Awards:
B.S., Physics and Economics, Stanford University M.A., Economics, University of California at Berkeley Ph.D., Economics, University of California at Berkeley Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Award He has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Social Sciences, honoris causa, by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has been a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow and a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Research Interests:
Economic Theory, Economic Development, Economic Growth, and the Economies of East Asia, including China. He developed one of the first econometric models of China, in 1966, and has continued to revise and update his model since then.

Recent Publications:
He is the author or editor of five books--Farmer Education and Farm Efficiency (with Dean T. Jamison), Models of Development: A Comparison of Economic Growth in South Korea and Taiwan, Econometrics and the Cost of Capital: Essays in Honor of Dale W. Jorgenson, North Korea in Transition: Prospects for Economic and Social Reform (with Chang-Ho Yoon), and U.S. Direct Investment in China (with Kwok-Chiu Fung and Joseph S. Lee)--and more than one hundred and fifty articles and notes in professional publications.

Professional Affiliations:
Amongst his many professional activities, Dr. Lau is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai; an Honorary Professor of the Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, the College of Management, Tsing Hua University, Beijing, People’s University, Beijing, Shantou University, Shantou, Nanjing University, Nanjing, and Southeast University, Nanjing; a member of the Board of Directors of the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Taipei; a member of the Council of Advisors on Innovation and Technology, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, and an International Advisor, National Bureau of Statistics, People’s Republic of China.