Governor, People’s Bank of China

Dr. YI Gang is the Governor of the People’s Bank of China and a Deputy Director of the Office of the Central Leading Group on Financial and Economic Affairs. Dr. Yi joined the People’s Bank of China in 1997 and has held a number of positions, including Secretary-General of the Monetary Policy Committee and Director-General of the Monetary Policy Department. In December 2007, he became Deputy Governor and was appointed Administrator of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange in July 2009, a position he held until early December 2015. He was appointed Governor of the People’s Bank of China in March 2018. Dr. Yi received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois in 1986 and was a faculty member in the Department of Economics, Indiana University from 1986 to 1994. He co-founded the China Center for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University and has been a professor at the CCER since then. His research interests include money, banking and the Chinese economy.