Shenggen Fan

He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Nanjing Agricultural University in China. In 1989, he graduated from the College of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences of the University of Minnesota with a Ph.D. in applied economics. His research was the first to separately measure the effects of the green revolution promoted by international agricultural research, technological change, and institutional changes in China, on the productivity of the Chinese agricultural system.[2]

After completing his PhD, he was a post-doctoral fellow and associate research officer at the International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) in The Hague, Netherlands from 1990-1992, and then a research economist at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. From there, he joined IFPRI in 1995.

At IFPRI, he was successively

• 1995–1998: Research Fellow at IFPRI
• 1998–2005: Senior Research Fellow and team leader of public investment at IFPRI
• 2005–2009: Division Director of IFPRI's Development Strategy and Governance Division .[3]
• Since 2009: Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC.

Fan has received the Outstanding Alumni Award in Applied Economics and the Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals in 2006 (both from the University of Minnesota).

He is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Agricultural Economists[4] and has been on the editorial boards of Food Policy (UK), 2002–Present.[5] Journal of Chinese Rural Economy, China, 2001–Present[6] and Review of Agricultural Economics, USA, 2001–2002[6]

Fan is a member of the Leadership Council of Compact2025, an initiative for ending hunger and undernutrition by 2025.[7]

Since 2004, Fan is an adjunct fellow of the Institute of Indian Dalit Studies, New Delhi.[8]

Dr. Shenggen Fan is on the Board of Trustees of the University of Central Asia.[9]

Fan received the 2017 Fudan Management Excellence Award, which recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of management.[10]

Fan has published 32 peer-reviewed journal articles, which were cited over 250 times.[11]

He has also edited or (co-)authored 7 books:

• Fan, Shenggen; Zhang, Linxiu (2003). WTO and rural public investment strategy in China [in Chinese]. Beijing: China Agricultural Publishing House.
• Fan, Shenggen; Zhong, Funing; Wen, Simei (2005). Globalization and small farm-holders. Beijing: China Agricultural Publishing House.
• Fan, Shenggen; Chan-Kang, Connie (2006). Road development, economic growth, and poverty reduction [in Chinese]. Beijing: China Agricultural Publishing House.
• Fan, Shenggen; Gulati, Ashok (2007). The dragon and the elephant : Agricultural and rural reforms in China and India. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Fan, Shenggen (2008). Public expenditures, growth, and poverty in developing countries: Lessons from developing countries. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Fan, Shenggen; Kanbur, Ravi; Zhang, Xiaobo (2009). Regional inequality in China: trends, explanations and policy responses. London New York: Rouledge. ISBN 9780415775885.
• Fan, Shenggen; Zhang, Xiaobo; de Haan, Arjan (2010). Narratives of Chinese economic reforms: How does China cross the river? Singapore: World Scientific.

• Profile on the IFPRI website
• Publication summary on Scopus
• Presentations on Slideshare