Nicholas R. Lardy



Nicholas R. "Nick" Lardy is a policy scholar and influential expert on the economy of China. A longstanding China watcher, he has been a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics since 2003. He has been referred to as "one of the world's leading experts on the Chinese economy" and "everybody's guru on China".

Early life and education

Lardy received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1968, and his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1975, both in economics.

Career

From 1975 to 1983, Lardy served as assistant professor, then associate professor of economics at Yale University. He was then associate professor, then professor of international studies at the University of Washington from 1983 to 1995, chairing the university's China Program from 1984 to 1989 and directing its Henry M. [Jackson School of International Studies] from 1991 to 1995.
From 1995 to 2003, Lardy was a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program of the Brookings Institution. From 1997 to 2000, he was also the Frederick Frank Adjunct Professor of International Trade and Finance at the Yale School of Management.
Lardy joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics in 2003 and became the institute's reference scholar on China, including as Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow from 2010 to 2021.

Works