Yi Gang
易纲
Yi in 2018
12thGovernor of the People's Bank of China
In office 19 March 2018 – 25 July 2023
Premier	Li Keqiang (2018–2023) Li Qiang (2023)
Party secretary	Guo Shuqing Pan Gongsheng
Preceded by	Zhou Xiaochuan
Succeeded by	Pan Gongsheng
Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China
In office 23 December 2007 – 19 March 2018
Governor	Zhou Xiaochuan
Director of theState Administration of Foreign Exchange
In office 17 July 2009 – 12 January 2016
Premier	Wen Jiabao Li Keqiang
Preceded by	Hu Xiaolian
Succeeded by	Pan Gongsheng
Personal details
Born	(1958-03-05)5 March 1958 (age 67) Beijing,China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Alma mater	Peking University (UG) Hamline University (no degree) University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (PhD)
Occupation	Economist

Yi Gang (Chinese:易纲;pinyin:Yì Gāng) (born 5 March 1958) is a Chinese economist who served as thegovernor of the People's Bank of China from 2018 to 2023,^[1] vice governor of the People's Bank of China from 2007 to 2018, director of theState Administration of Foreign Exchange from 2009 to 2015, and assistant governor of the People's Bank of China from 2004 to 2007.^[2]

Yi Gang was born in Beijing, March 5, 1958. He studied atBeijing University,Hamline University inSaint Paul, Minnesota, and obtained his Ph.D in Economics from theUniversity of Illinois Urbana–Champaign,^{[3]: 195–196} with a dissertation on statistical model selection methods.^[4] He became an Associate Professor with tenure atIndiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis and then joined the faculty ofPeking University as professor, deputy director of the Center for Economics Research, and Ph.D advisor in Economics. He went to thePeople's Bank of China in 1997 and then successively served as Deputy Secretary-General and Secretary-General of the Monetary Policy Committee, Deputy Director-General and Director-General of the Monetary Policy Department, and Assistant Governor, as well as President of the Operations Office from September 2006 to October 2007. In December 2007, he was appointed Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China. From 2009, he served as Director of theState Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE)^[5] until January 12, 2016. On April 18, 2012, Indiana University president Michael A. McRobbie conferred an honorary doctorate of humane letters upon Yi Gang, who served as assistant professor and associate professor of economics at IUPUI from 1986 to 1994.^[6]

Yi has published more than 40 articles in Chinese and 20 academic papers in English that have appeared in economics journals such as the Journal of Econometrics, the China Economic Review, and Comparative Economic Studies. Yi is the author of ten books, and he served as a consultant for the Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, the Journal of Econometrics, China Economic Review, Comparative Economic Studies, Economic Theory, Contemporary Policy Issues, and theJournal of Asian Economics. He also serves on the editorial board of the China Economic Review and the Journal of Asian Economics.^[7]

In October 2016, Yi helped represent China at the semi-annual meetings of theIMF and theWorld Bank in Washington, D.C., including on a panel withBank of EnglandgovernorMark Carney. The meetings came as theyuan was for the first time being included in the IMF’s international basket of currencies known asspecial drawing rights. Questions about Chinese debt levels, steel production and housing production were among those addressed in the meetings.^[8]

In October 2017, at the19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, he was elected as an alternate member of the19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.^[9]

From March 2018 to July 2023, Yi was appointed as the governor of the People's Bank of China.^[10] In July 2018, he was named Vice Chair of theFinancial Stability and Development Committee.^[11]

He is also an adviser to theChina Finance 40 Forum (CF40).^[12]

• Harrison, David,"China Wants to Make Currency Policy ‘More Market-Oriented,’ PBOC’s Yi Says" (subscription possibly required), Wall StreetJournal, October 7, 2015.

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