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Yi Gang
Governor of the People's Bank of China
Yi Gang is a Governor of the People's Bank of China, Inc.(PBCZ)
since 2018. He previously served as vice governor of the People's Bank of China from 2007 to 2018, director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange from 2009 to 2015, and assistant governor of the People's Bank of China from 2004 to 2007.
He went to the People's Bank of China in 1997 and then successively served as Deputy Secretary-General and Secretary-General of the Monetary Policy Committee, Deputy Director-General and Director-General of the Monetary Policy Department, and Assistant Governor, as well as President of the Operations Office from September 2006 to October 2007. In December 2007,
he was appointed Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China. From 2009, he served as Director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) until January 12, 2016. On April 18, 2012, Indiana University president Michael A. McRobbie conferred an honorary doctorate of humane letters upon Yi Gang, who served as assistant professor and associate professor of economics at IUPUI from 1986 to 1994.
Early Life
Yi Gang was born in Beijing, March 5, 1958. He studied at Beijing University, Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and obtained his Ph.D in Economics from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, with a dissertation on statistical model selection methods. He became an Associate Professor with tenure at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis and then joined the faculty of Peking University as professor, deputy director of the Center for Economics Research, and Ph.D advisor in Economics.
Education
- studied at Beijing University, Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota -
- Ph.D - Economics - University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
Career
- People's Bank of China - Governor