John Rogers is a Senior Adviser in   the International Finance Division of the Federal Reserve Board. He received   his BA from the University of Delaware and PhD in economics from the   University of Virginia. John was on the economics department faculty at Penn   State University, where he rose to Associate Professor in 1996. He began   working on the Fed’s multi-country model in the Trade & Financial Studies   section, and became section chief in 2003. John is the author of several   academic publications in international finance and macroeconomics. He   continues to teach those subjects as an adjunct professor in the economics   department at Georgetown University. John is the father of five children.

Xuguang Simon Sheng is an Associate   Professor of Economics at American University. His research interests include   time series econometrics, economic and financial forecasting. He has   published in Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics,   Journal of International Monetary and Finance, Journal of Accounting and   Economics, and Oxford Handbook on Economic Forecasting. He has also been   awarded a Heinz König Young Scholar Award from Centre for European Economic   Research (ZEW). He has served as a reviewer for highly ranked journals in his   field, as a reviewer for National Science Foundation and as a co-organizer of   four international conferences.

Li Su is an Associate Professor of   Economics at Renmin University of China. He received a Ph.D. in economics   from University of Oklahoma in 2013. His research focuses on Industrial   Organization, International Economics, and Econometrics. He has published in   Journal of Econometrics, Emerging Market of Finance and Trade, and others.   His most recent work studies the relationship among import license,   misallocation, and total factor productivity in the Chinese Steel Industry.

Carola Binder is an Assistant   Professor of Economics at Haverford College. She received a Ph.D. in   economics from U.C. Berkeley in 2015. Her research focuses on expectations,   perceptions, inflation, monetary policy, and central bank communication. She   is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking and a   member of the CEPR Research and Policy Network on Central Bank Communication.

Huancheng Du is currently a   Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on   Contemporary China, Princeton University, as part of the CUHK,   Shenzhen-Princeton Postdoctoral Program. He earned his PhD and MS in   Financial Economics from American University. His research interests include   international finance, behavioral finance, asset pricing, international   trade, wage inequality and applied econometrics.

Sunday, November 15 (9:00 am—11:00   am, Beijing time)

Chris Papageorgiou is Chief of the   Development Macroeconomics Division in the Research Department. He has led   and participated in several country missions. He has also contributed to   policy work on a variety of developing economy issues including   transformation and diversification, public investment and capital flows. He   has published extensively, and is an associate editor of the European   Economic Review and IMF Economic Review.

Chang Ma is an Assistant Professor at   Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University. He received his BA   from Nankai University, MA from Renmin University and PhD in economics from   Johns Hopkins University. Chang worked at IMF as a summer intern in 2016 and   Bank of Finland (BOFIT) as a visiting researcher in 2020. His research   interest lies in international finance, macroeconomics and macroprudential   policy. His most recent work investigates the impact of capital controls on   financial stability and economic growth as well as the overall effect of the   China Connect.

Yang Liu is currently a research   fellow at the School of Applied Economics, Renmin University of China. She   also serves as an associate researcher in the International Finance and   Banking Society. She received her PhD in July 2020 and her research interest   covers international finance, energy finance and energy economics. She has   published several papers in Journal of Futures Markets, Energy Policy and   International Review of Financial Analysis and others.

Huancheng Du is currently a   Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on   Contemporary China, Princeton University, as part of the CUHK,   Shenzhen-Princeton Postdoctoral Program. He earned his PhD and MS in   Financial Economics from American University. His research interests include   international finance, behavioral finance, asset pricing, international   trade, wage inequality and applied econometrics.

Dingqian Liu is a Ph.D. Candidate in   Economics at American University. Her research focuses on uncertainty,   attention, stock market volatility and behavioral finance. Her other   interests include Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning   (ML). She also has affiliation with The University of Chicago Booth School of   Business.