Wing Thye Woo is a lecturer at the University of California Davis, is also a scholar at the Central School of Finance and Economics in Beijing, director of the East Asia in the Earth Institue at Columbia University, is also associated with the Brookings Institution as a nonresident Senior Fellow. Prof Woo led has taken part in many international research projects, one of which was headed by Leszek Balcerowicz, under the title "Economies in Transition: Comparing Asia and Europe" about the transformation of centrally planned economis. Prof Woo has also lead a project presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos, "Asia Competitiveness Report 1999", analyzing the Asian financial crisis Woo co-founded Asian Economic Panel Forum - 50 leading Asian economists. He has advised numerous governments: the Ministry of Finance of China, Ministry of the U.S. Treasury, the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
The Rise of China: The Implications for Us and EU
Economist Wing Thye Woo, a professor at the University of California Davis, specializing in East Asian economies, delivered a lecture at the University Lazarski titled: "The Rise of China: The Implications for U.S. and EU", on the impact of China's economic growth on the economy of Europe and the United States. The meeting was held on 20 November 2010.
