Dr. Barry Naughton is the So Kwan Lok Chair of Chinese International Affairs at the School of Global Policy & Strategy. Dr. Naughton has published extensively on the Chinese economy, with a focus on four interrelated areas: market transition, industry and technology, foreign trade, and Chinese political economy. His pioneering study of Chinese economic reform, Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978-1993 (Cambridge University Press, 1995) won the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. The new edition of Dr. Naughton’s acclaimed survey and textbook, The Chinese Economy: Adaptation and Growth, appeared in 2018 from MIT Press (The Chinese translation currently has a 9.9 score on Chinese readers’ website Douban). Dr. Naughton’s most recent book is The Rise of China’s Industrial Policy, 1978-2020. (Boulder: Lynne Reiner, 2021). Dr. Naughton earned his Bachelor of Arts in Chinese Language and Literature, University of Washington, and his PhD in Economics, Yale University.