When:
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
Where: Kellogg Global Hub, Room 4301, 2211 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Grace Musante
(847) 491-8889
Group: Global Poverty Research Lab
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Speaker: Wei Cui, University of British Columbia
Wei Cui is a professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, and currently directs UBC’s Centre for Asian Legal Studies. Before joining the UBC faculty, he practiced tax law for over 10 years in New York and Beijing, including as a U.S. tax associate at Simpson Thacher, as senior tax counsel for the China Investment Corporation, and as a counsel-level consultant for Clifford Chance.
He has served as a consultant to the United Nations, the Budgetary Affairs Commission of China’s National People’s Congress, and China’s Ministry of Finance and State Administration of Taxation. Professor Cui has authored over 90 academic and professional articles and is a co-author of Value Added Tax: A Comparative Approach (Cambridge University Press 2015). He is currently writing a book about the foundations of China's modern fiscal state.
Professor Cui is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School.
The China Lab Lecture series features scholars who do research on Chinese development. In addition to presenting recent research, all speakers will address the following questions:
1. What should policymakers in China do differently?
2. What did policymakers in China do right?
3. Are there lessons for policymakers in other countries?
4. What are the obvious questions for which more empirical research is needed?
5. What obstacles did the researchers face in doing research on China, and how should students overcome them?
6. Where and how did the researchers obtain data and institutional knowledge?
**Please note: the event will now take place in 4301**