施雅德教授
Vice-President
Sydney S.W.Leong Chair Professor of Economics
Professor Jesús Seade is presently the Vice-President of Lingnan University as well as the Sydney S.W. Leong Chair Professor of Economics and Director of the Hong Kong APEC Study Centre.
Professor Seade has been a senior executive and leading contributor to economic theory, policy and practice from a range of senior positions in academia, government, and international economic organizations. He held a Chair in Economics at Warwick University, the United Kingdom and was Director-founder of Mexico’s leading Economics Department; Ambassador and chief negotiator to the Uruguay Round Trade Negotiations and to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and was appointed as a founder deputy head of the World Trade Organization (WTO)(1993-1998). Subsequently at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) (1998-2007) he was closely involved in crisis management and capital market issues (Brazil, Argentina, Turkey) before moving on to head the IMF’s Task-force overseeing all work on Standards and Codes. He joined Lingnan University in January 2007 as Chair Professor and Head of the Economics Department and moved to his present position as Vice-President on 1 September 2008, while remaining active in both teaching and research.
Professor Seade’s main research interests are in financial markets, theoretical and applied fiscal analysis, and trade. His publications have appeared in the leading economics journals including Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Public Economics, Economic Journal, and others. At Lingnan, where he arrived in January 2007, he has been leading a major collaborative research project with other colleagues at Lingnan and in other universities locally and abroad, studying Hong Kong as International Financial Centre, applying a range of techniques to the analysis of what determines relative efficiency and performance in different sectors of financial industry in major centres in the region and globally. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the comparative analysis of international financial centres.
Professor Seade has been a senior executive and leading contributor to economic theory, policy and practice from a range of senior positions in academia, government, and international economic organizations. He held a Chair in Economics at Warwick University, the United Kingdom and was Director-founder of Mexico’s leading Economics Department; Ambassador and chief negotiator to the Uruguay Round Trade Negotiations and to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and was appointed as a founder deputy head of the World Trade Organization (WTO)(1993-1998). Subsequently at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) (1998-2007) he was closely involved in crisis management and capital market issues (Brazil, Argentina, Turkey) before moving on to head the IMF’s Task-force overseeing all work on Standards and Codes. He joined Lingnan University in January 2007 as Chair Professor and Head of the Economics Department and moved to his present position as Vice-President on 1 September 2008, while remaining active in both teaching and research.
Professor Seade’s main research interests are in financial markets, theoretical and applied fiscal analysis, and trade. His publications have appeared in the leading economics journals including Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Public Economics, Economic Journal, and others. At Lingnan, where he arrived in January 2007, he has been leading a major collaborative research project with other colleagues at Lingnan and in other universities locally and abroad, studying Hong Kong as International Financial Centre, applying a range of techniques to the analysis of what determines relative efficiency and performance in different sectors of financial industry in major centres in the region and globally. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the comparative analysis of international financial centres.