Zhang Weiying is currently Sinar Mas Chair Professor of Economics at the National School of Development, Peking University. He was born in 1959 in Shaanx iProvince, and received undergraduate and graduate training in economics from Northwest University (China). His radical ideas for price reform presented at the Mount Mogan Conference landed him a position at the Economic System Reform Institute in 1984. In 1990, he attended Oxford University and obtained his D.Phil. in Economics in 1994. He co-founded China Center for Economic Research (CCER) of Peking University.
Since 1997, Professor Zhang has taught economics at Peking University (PKU), and was the Dean of the Guanghua School of Management between 2006 and 2010. He moved from PKU's Guanghua School of to National School of Development (formerly named CCER) in July 2014. He has been the Chief Economist for the China Entrepreneurs Forum since 2001.
Professor Zhang is widely regarded as the leading advocate of the free market in China as well as an authority on the theory of the firm and ownership reform. His insightful and provocative opinions about China’s reforms have been widely reported both in Chinese and international media. The Wall Street Journal called him “China’s Anti-Keynesian Insurgent.” He has received several prestigious awards in China. In 2011, he received the China Economic Theory Innovation Award for his pioneering contribution to the dual-track price reform.
His publications include An Entrepreneurial-Contractual Theory of the Firm (1995); Game Theory and Information Economics (1996); The Theory of the Firm and Chinese Enterprise Reform (1999);Information, Trust, and the Law (2003);Ownership, Incentives, and Corporate Governance (2005); Core Competence and Growth of the Firm (2006); Prices, the Market, and Entrepreneurship (2006); Thirty Years of Chinese Reform (2008); the Logic of the Market (2010）；The Road to the Market (2012); Games and Society (2013); and New Enlightenment for Reform (2014).
The English version of his book the Logic of the Market: An Insider’s View of Chinese Economic Reform has just been published by the Cato Institute Press.
张维迎，1959年生于陕西省吴堡县。1982年获西北大学经济系学士学位；1984年获硕士学位，同年进入国家体改委中国经济体制改革研究所，直接参与了对中国经济改革政策的研究；1990年9月入牛津大学读书；1992年获经济学硕士学位；1994年获博士学位；1994年8月回国到北京大学任教。
现任北京大学国家发展研究院金光经济学讲席教授，北京大学市场网络经济研究中心主任，中国企业家论坛首席经济学家。曾任北京大学光华管理学院常务副院长（1999-2006）和院长（2006-2010）。主要著作包括：《企业的企业家-契约理论》（1995），《博弈论与信息经济学》（1996），《企业理论与中国企业改革》（1999），《产权、政府与信誉》（2001），《信息、信任与法律》（2003）,《大学的逻辑》（2004），《论企业家》（2004再版），《产权、激励与公司治理》（2005），《竞争力与企业成长》（2006），《价格、市场与企业家》（2006）,《中国改革30年》（2008），《市场的逻辑》（2010）,《什么改变中国》（2012），《通往市场之路》（2012），《博弈与社会》（2013），《改革新启蒙》（2014），《理念的力量》（2014），《市场与政府》（2014），《经济学原理》（2015）等。另有数十篇中英文学术论文在国内外权威期刊发表。2000年获得国家自然科学杰出青年基金；2002年，获得CCTV“中国经济年度人物”；2008年，选入中国经济体制改革研究会评选的“改革30年，经济30人”；.2011年，因对双轨制价格改革的开创新研究荣获第四届“中国经济理论创新奖”；2013年，获得网易财经“年度最有影响力经济学家奖”。