Hanming Fang is Class of 1965 Term Chair Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and the Chair of the Department of Economics at Penn. He is a Fellow of Econometric Society. His main research areas are public economics, labor economics and the Chinese economy. He served as the Dean of the School of Entrepreneurship and Management at ShanghaiTech University and the Director of the Chinese Economy Working Group for the National Bureau of Economic Research (USA). He is a leader in applied microeconomics. He was a co-editor for Journal of Public Economics and International Economic Review, and served on the editorial board for several other journals, including the top economics journal, American Economic Review. He is now a Senior Editor of Journal of Risk and Insurance. He has a wide range of research interests and his research tends to combine theory with evidence. His research topics range from the theoretical and empirical methods of economics of discrimination, health insurance market, life insurance market and population aging. His research on health insurance market received the Kenneth Arrow Award for the best health economics research from the International Health Economics Association in 2010.