CAI Hongbin

Dean, the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University

Cai Hongbin is a renowned China economist and author, as well as the Dean of the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University. Cai’s ground-breaking research focuses on microeconomics, industrial organization, corporate finance, and Chinese economy and has been published in top international journals. He is a National Chang Jiang Scholar (awarded by Ministry of Education of China) and a National Outstanding Young Researcher (awarded by the National Science Foundation of China). Under Cai’s leadership, Guanghua has firmly established itself as one of China’s most prestigious business schools. Cai’s vision to cultivate Intellect, Innovation, Integrity, and Internationalization led to Guaghua’s addition of a fourth campus in China’s western economic hub of Xi’an, the establishment of the Guanghua-Kellogg Executive MBA program, the launch of the Center for Responsibility and Social Values and the creation of China’s first Master of Social Enterprise Management. Active in the business community, Cai serves on the Boards of the Sinopec Group (as an Outside Director) and China Unicom. He is also a consultant for the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. He is also an elected Fellow and a Council member of the Econometric Society. Cai is a Member of the National People’s Congress, and a member of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League and Vice Chairman of its Committee of Economic Affairs. Prior to joining Guanghua, Cai taught at the University of California, Los Angeles,  Anderson School of Management. He earned his PhD in Economics at Stanford University.