Nick Lardy delivered a talk at the CIGI Global Policy Forum in March 2016 titled “China’s Transition to a New Model of Economic Growth.”
Nick is the Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He joined the institute in March 2003 from the Brookings Institution, where he was a senior fellow from 1995 to 2003.
Before Brookings, Nick served as director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington from 1991 to 1995. From 1997 through the spring of 2000, he was also the Frederick Frank Adjunct Professor of International Trade and Finance at the Yale University School of Management. He is an expert on the Chinese economy.
Nick’s most recent books are Markets over Mao: The Rise of Private Business in China (2014), Sustaining China’s Economic Growth after the Global Financial Crisis (2012), The Future of China’s Exchange Rate Policy (2009), and China’s Rise: Challenges and Opportunities (2008). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the editorial boards of Asia Policy and China Review. He received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1968 and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1975; both degrees were in economics.