Time： 10:30-12:00 AM, 23rd Feb, 2018 (Friday)

Venue: Conference Room#359S,Overseas Exchange Center of Peking University(北京大学英杰交流中心359S会议室)

Language:     English

Organized by:   Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University (INSE)

Moderator: Yong Wang (Associate Professor, Academic Deputy Dean, INSE, PKU)

A new World Bank publication, titled “A Rebalancing China and Resurging India: How Will the Pendulum Swing for Russia?, analyzes and estimates the impact that the two major, dynamically transforming economies – China and India – might have on Russia by the year 2030. As China’s economy rebalances and shifts toward greater domestic consumption, and India’s economy continues to expand rapidly, Russia will face various challenges and opportunities in the years ahead. How will these changes affect Russia’s macro-economy by the year 2030? This publication constructs sophisticated economic modeling to address this question, and the associated presentation will present key findings in a non-technical fashion.

【SPEAKER】

Apurva Sanghi, currently based in Moscow, is the World Bank’s Lead Economist for the Russian Federation. Prior to that, he was based in Nairobi, Kenya as the Lead Economist for Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Eritrea. Before Kenya, Apurva was based in Washington DC where he led the Economic Growth Cluster of the World Bank’s Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Department. He is a selective commentator on economic issues with views expressed in the pages of major international media outlets such as the Financial Times; the Economist; Project Syndicate; Forbes (Russia), and popular blog sites such as Brookings and the World Bank’s.

Apurva is also a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC's) Special Report on Extreme Events, and was the team leader for the joint World Bank - UN flagship project on the economics of disasters. He has worked on development topics ranging from infrastructure and climate change to microfinance and agricultural economics. Before joining the World Bank, Apurva worked in private sector consulting; for the Thailand Development Research Institute; and held teaching and research positions at the University of Chicago, Thammasat University (Bangkok), and Yale University.

Apurva holds college degrees in physics and economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a PhD from the University of Chicago, where his core training was in growth and macroeconomics