Zhang Jun (economist)

Zhang Jun (Chinese: 张军; born January 26, 1963) is a Chinese economist and Cheung Kong Professor of Economics at Fudan University in Shanghai. He is the Director of China Center for Economics Studies at Fudan.

Zhang received his doctorate in economics from Fudan University, and completed post-doctoral fellowships in the United States at Washington State University, and in Britain at the University of Sussex. After these studies, he held visiting professorships at a number of universities worldwide, including the London School of Economics, the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, Harvard University, Yale University, University of Aarhus and Tokyo Metropolitan University. Zhang's principal academic fields involve Chinese economic reform, and development economics.

Zhang has published in a variety of publications in both Chinese and English, and now holds the Chang Jiang chair in economics at Fudan, as well as serving as on the faculty of the China Europe International Business School and as the director of the China Center for Economic Studies.