Faculty

Zheng (Michael) SONG is Wei Lun Professor of Economics and the Department Head at the Department of Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a Senior Fellow of Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER). His research focuses on Chinese economy and macroeconomics. His papers were published by leading academic journals including American Economic Review, Econometrica and Journal of Political Economy. He won Sunyefang Economic Science Award in 2013. He is an Associate Editor of Journal of International Economics and Review of Finance, was a Co-Editor of China Economic Review and an Associate Editor of Econometrica and Journal of European Economic Association. He is a Co-Director of CUHK-Tsinghua Joint Research Center for Chinese Economy, a Co-Director of CUHK-Zhejiang University Joint Research Center for Digital Economy, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University and Zhejiang University, and special-term professor at Peking University. He sits on Business Studies Panel of Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (RGC) and Business and Economics Panel of Research Assessment Exercise 2026 for University Grants Committee (UGC). He is a Currency Board Sub-Committee member of the Hong Kong Exchange Fund Advisory Committee. He is also an academic advisor to Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research and an independent director of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank.