Jikun Huang

 

 

Dean, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences; 

Honorary Director, China Centre for Agricultural Policy (CCAP)

Director, New Rural Development Institute, PKU

 

 

Address:  4^th Floor, Wangkezhen Building, Peking University

                No.5 Yiheyuan Road, Haidian, Beijing 100871, China

Telephone:    +86-10-62765603 Fax: 62767145; Email: jkhuang.ccap@pku.edu.cn

 

Areas of specialization

Food and agricultural policy; Food demand, supply, market and trade; Resource management; Economics of climate change; Modelling; Rural development.

Office hours

By appointment

Recent courses

Food Security and Policy 
Agricultural Economy and Policy
Research Design and Academic Paper Writing in Agricultural Economics

Graduated students

By 2024, trained more than 100 MS, PhD and Post-doc in agricultural economics and rural development. Most of them work in universities and academies in China or abroad. Among them, three received one of China’s highest honours for young scientists—the “Distinguished Young Scholars” from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, one received “Cheung Kong Scholar Chair Professor” and two received “Cheung Kong Scholar for Young Scholars” from the Ministry of Education.

Education

·     1987-1990: PhD in Agri. Economics, University of the Philippines Los Banos

·     1980-1984: BS in Agricultural Economics, Nanjing Agricultural University, China

Employment history

·       2024.4-present: Dean, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, PKU

        Honorary Director, China Centre for Agricultural Policy (CCAP), PKU

        Director, New Rural Development Institute, PKU

·       2015–2024.3: Professor, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, PKU

        Honorary Director, China Centre for Agricultural Policy (CCAP), PKU

        Director, New Rural Development Institute, PKU

·      2000-2015: Professor and Director, CCAP, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

·      1995-2000: Director of CCAP; Professor at Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

·      1994-1995: Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

·      1992-1994: Professor, China National Rice Research Institute (CNRRI)

·      1990-1992: Post-Doctor, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

·      1984-1987: Research Assistant, CNRRI

Current other major positions

·      Member of High-Level Advisory Panel(HLAP), CGIAR, 2022

·      Member of Think Tank (T20) Expert Group of G20 2022 (Indonesia), Co-chairs of Working Group 4 (TF4) "Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture"

·      Member of the Scientific Group and Co-coordinator of the Action Track 4-Advancing Equitable Livelihoods, UN Food Systems Summit 2021

·      Member of  Special Expert Group, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference(CPPCC)

·      Member, Expert Advisory Committee, the Office of Rural Leading Group under the Central Committee of CPC, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, China

·      Member, Expert Committee of National Development Planning for "the 14th Five-Year Plan", the National Development and Reform Committee

·      Member, Expert Advisory Committee, Shandong Provincial Government

·      Member, Expert Advisory Committee, Jiangxi Provincial Government

·      Member, Academic Committee, China Institute for Rural Studies, Tsinghua University

·      Member, Academic Committee, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences(CAAS)

·      Member, Academic Committee, Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development, CAAS

·      Member, Academic Committee, Information Research Institute, CAAS

·      Council Member, Think Tank for Urban-Rural Integration, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

·      Chair, Academic Committee, Management, Key Laboratory of Management, Decision and Information System, CAS

·      Member and vice Chair, Academic Commmittee, Economic Forecasting Center, CAS

Major awards and honorary tittles

·      Fellow, World Academy of Sciences TWAS

·      Honorary Life Member of International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE)

·      Fellow of Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA)

·      Award for Scientific Progress for 5 times in China from 1997 to 2015

·      Award for Fudan Outstanding Achievement in Management Science in China, 2008

·      Winner of Young Scientists of China (top 10 Youth Scientists), PRC, 2002

Consulting experience

Consultants for more than 20 international organizations, including World Bank, ADB, UNDP, FAO, WFP, ESCAP/UNs,UNEP, IFAD, OECD,APEC, Rockefeller Foundations, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, IFPRI/IRRI/CIMMYT/Other CGIAR Centers, EU Commission, etc.

Publications

Huang's publications cover a wide range of issues on agricultural and rural development and rural development. He has published more  640+ journal papers by March 2024, of which 354 papers published in the refereed international journals. He is co-author of 25 books. In addition, he also contributed more than 70 chapters in English books.