197 1- 1975, graduated from the 44th National Military Academy of Taiwan Province Province;
65438-0978, Master, School of Enterprise Management, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Province Province;
Peking University Department of Economics, Master of Political Economy,
1982; Ph.D., Department of Economics, University of Chicago, USA,
1986; Postdoctoral fellow, Economic Development Center, Yale University, USA. 1987- 1990 deputy director of the development research institute of the State Council rural development research center;
1990- 1993, Deputy Minister of Rural Affairs of the State Council Development Research Center;
1993 was promoted to professor of Peking University;
1994, together with Yi Gang, Zhang, Yu Mingde and others, founded the China Economic Research Center of Peking University, the predecessor of the National Development Research Institute of Peking University, and served as the director.
From 65438 to 0998, he led the China Center for Economic Research and Futenma University in the United States to establish the Peking University International MBA(BiMBA), which is now renamed the BiMBA Business School of Peking University National Development Institute.
In 2005, he was elected as an academician of the Third World Academy of Sciences (now the Academy of Developing World Sciences).
In 2008, he became the chief economist and senior vice president in charge of development economics of the World Bank.
In 20 12, he ended his tenure in the World Bank and returned to the National Development Research Institute of Peking University as honorary president. Development economics, agricultural economics, institutional economics.
On February 4th, 2008, Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank, officially appointed Lin Yifu, a professor of economics in Peking University, as the World Bank's chief economist and senior vice president in charge of development economics. The chief economist of the World Bank plays a very important role in making research plans and developing directions. Lin Yifu's appointment as the chief economist of the World Bank will further change the relationship between the World Bank and China. Lin Yifu is the first China person to hold such a high position in the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund. Chinese mainland economist who has published the most papers in foreign economic journals so far. He and his wife Chen Yunying have two children and now live in Beijing.
Chen Yunying is an expert in special education.