Yuen Yuen Ang is the Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University, based in Washington DC. Ang is a cross-disciplinary scholar of political economy, focusing on China and on the themes of adaptive development and innovation. Her work has been recognized for both its scholarly and public impact. 

She is the inaugural recipient of Theda Skocpol Prize, awarded by the American Political Science Association for “impactful contributions to comparative politics,” along with the Peter Katzenstein Book Prize (political economy), Viviana Zelizer Best Book (economic sociology), Alice Amsden Book Award (for “best book that breaks new ground in the study of economic behavior"), and the Douglass North Best Book Award (“for the best book in organizational and institutional economics").  Her two award-winning books, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016) and China's Gilded Age (2020), are both recommended by The Economist. Her research has received funding support from the US National Science Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York. 

Professor Ang is named one of the world's “100 Most Influential Academics in Government” by Apolitical for work that has "potential to steer the direction of government." Foreign Affairs named her writing among the "Best of Books" and "Best of Print."  She has been profiled in media outlets worldwide, including CGTN, Die Zeit, Endgame, Ezra Klein Show (The New York Times), Freakonomics Radio. The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) produced a video lecture series on her scholarship on China's political economy, available worldwide on YouTube. She is a columnist at Project Syndicate, a global outlet that reprints expert commentaries in more than 150 countries. She is a Trustee of the Thomson-Reuters Founders Share Company, a guardian of the Trust Principles of independence, integrity, and freedom from bias in news reporting. She is also an award-winning teacher. Ang is from Singapore.