Profile: Dr. Yin Zhang

Organisation: University of Dundee

Yin Zhang graduated with a BA and an MA in Economics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 1995 and 1999. She went to University of Sydney where she gained her PhD in Economics in 2004. She worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at World Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations University, Helsinki, Finland before becoming a Lecturer at Dundee in August 2006.

Her general interests are in economic development and inequality with specific interests in poverty, inequality and health and Asian economies.