CHORCHING GOH

Adviser, the World Bank

Email: cgoh@worldbank.org

Work Phone: + 1-202-340-0692

Areas of Expertise

• Urban economics
• Labor economics

Education
Simultaneous BA & MA, Summa Cum Laude, Yale University, 1994. A.M., Harvard University, 1996 Ph.D., Harvard University, 1999 Chorching Goh is the Director of the Policy Research Center and a Professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics. She is also a scholar in the China’s Thousand Talent Program. Chorching headed the Economics Unit for China, Mongolia, and South Korea at the World Bank, based in Beijing, during July 2012-August 2015. She is now the Advisor at the Development Economics Unit at the World Bank’s headquarter in Washington D.C. She graduated from Yale University, summa cum laude, with simultaneous BA and MA degrees, and from Harvard University, a PhD in Economics. Prior to her work on China, Chorching was the lead economist for Ethiopia, Sudan and South Sudan (2010-2012). Before that, she was the senior economist for Russia, and worked also on the former Soviet Republics (e.g., Kazakhstan), and new European Union member states (e.g., Poland). Chorching was the deputy director of the 2009 World Development Report on Economic Geography. She joined the World Bank as a Young Professional and worked during her first 10 years in the East Asia and Pacific Region’s Economic Management Unit, covering Cambodia, Mongolia, the Philippines, Thailand, South Korea, and Indonesia.

KAREN FISHER-VANDEN

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Director of Graduate Studies, and Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, Pennsylvania State University

Email:?kaf26@psu.edu

Work?Phone:?+1-814-867-2752

Areas of Expertise

• Computable general equilibrium modeling
• Climate change impacts and adaptation
• Integrated assessment

Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1999

KAREN EGGLESTON

Email: karene@stanford.edu

Work Phone: +1 (650) 723-9072

Deputy Director, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford Health Policy Associate, and Director of the Asia Health Policy Program, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, University of Stanford

Areas of Expertise

• Health reform in China; comparative healthcare systems in Asia;
• government and market roles in the health sector; payment incentives; healthcare productivity;
• economic implications of demographic change.

Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, Public Policy, June 1999.
M.A., University of Hawaii, Economics, August 1995.
M.A., University of Hawaii, Asian Studies, May 1992.
B.A., Dartmouth College, Asian Studies, June 1988, Valedictorian

VALERIE KARPLUS

Email: vkarplus@mit.edu

Work Phone: +1 (617) 452-3582
Class of 1943 Career Development Professor; Assistant Professor, Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management

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Areas of Expertise

• biotechnology; climate change; economic modeling; economic development;
• China, Asia, emerging markets; globalization; international management;
• energy; environmental economics; political economy; resource management; strategy; sustainability; water

Education
Ph.D., Engineering Systems Division (Technology, Management, and Policy), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2011. MA, M.S., Technology and Policy and Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, June 2008. B.S., Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Political Science, Yale University, May 2002.