Dr. Bin Xu is Professor of Economics and Finance, Wu Jinglian Chair Professor in Economics at CEIBS. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Fudan University in 1986 and 1989, and his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 1995. Prior to joining CEIBS, Dr. Xu served on the faculty of the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida, where he was granted tenure. He has also taught at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and has provided consulting services to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.

Dr. Xu’s research focuses on the global and Chinese economies, multinational corporations in China, and trade and finance issues in emerging markets. His work has been published in prominent international and domestic academic journals, and he has frequently appeared on the “List of Highly Cited Chinese Researchers” published by Elsevier. He is the author of several books, including International Trade, Applying Macroeconomics, and Understanding Open Macroeconomy, and served as the founding editor-in-chief of the CEIBS Frontier Views Book Series.

At CEIBS, Dr. Xu teaches courses on macroeconomics, China and the global economy, and international trade and finance. He is also a frequent speaker on the global and Chinese economies for executives at both multinational and domestic corporations. Dr. Xu has received the CEIBS Teaching Excellence Award four times (in 2009, 2010, 2014, and 2016). In recognition of his outstanding contributions to teaching, he was honored with the CEIBS Medal for Teaching Excellence — the school’s highest teaching award — in 2019.