Professor at Willamette University, specialist in Post Keynesian-Institutionalist approach to international trade and finance, financial macroeconomics, and economic development (with a regional focus on China)

Yan Liang is Peter C and Bonnie S Kremer Chair Professor of Economics at Willamette University. She is also a Research Associate at the Levy Economics Institute and a Research Scholar of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. Yan specializes in MMT, Economic Development, International Economics and the Political Economy of China. Yan publishes in various leading heterodox journals and contributes to a number of heterodox books. Yan received several grants from the Institute for New Economic Thinking, the Luce Foundation, and the Chinese Ministry of Education. Yan is a regular commentator on the China Global TV Network, the East Asia Form, South China Morning Post among others. Yan is an elected board member of the Association for Evolutionary Economics and immediate past president of Association for Institutional Thought. She currently serves as guest editor for the Chinese Economy.