Mr. Wei was the chief spokesperson for ADB on economic and development trends, and led the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department, which publishes ADB's flagship knowledge products. With a long and distinguished career in academia, international finance and trade, before joining ADB, he was Director of the Chazen Institute of International Business at Columbia University, Director of the US National Bureau of Economic Research's working group on the Chinese economy, and a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research in London. Prior to Columbia University, Mr. Wei worked for the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and Harvard University.