Wing Thye Woo is Executive Director of the Penang Institute in Malaysia, Professor at University of California at Davis, Cheung Kong (Chang Jiang) Professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing, Distinguished Professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, and Director of the East Asia Program within The Earth Institute at Columbia University. His current research focuses on macroeconomic management of open economies, and on the growth the East Asia economies, especially, China, Indonesia and Malaysia.