Jack Yujie Gan is a Research Fellow at the Research Center for Modernization of Community Governance at Peking University. He previously served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Policy at the School of Government.

Jack received his DPhil in Economic Geography from St Antony’s College, University of Oxford (affiliated with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment), supported by the full-funding CSC-PAG Oxford Scholarship. He was also a Humboldt Research Fellow (German Chancellor Fellow) at the Free University of Berlin and a visiting doctoral researcher at the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to his doctoral studies, he earned his Master’s degree from Peking University.

His research expertise lies in pension finance, institutional investor governance, population aging, and public economics. He has published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Communications, Journal of Chinese Governance, and RAIRO-Operations Research. Actively engaged in international academic and policy dialogues, Jack is a recipient of the St. Gallen Symposium Wings of Excellence Award, a Young Global Changer at the Global Solutions Summit in Berlin, and an APEC Young Delegate (2017 APEC Summit in Vietnam).