Penelope Prime

professor, Mercer University

Penelope Prime has 30 years of experience studying and working within Chinese culture and the dynamic Chinese economy. After majoring in Chinese studies and studying Mandarin as an undergraduate, she earned a PhD in economics at the University of Michigan. She was one of the first US graduate students to do dissertation research in China after the two countries normalized relations in the late 1970s. In 2001, Prime launched the China Research Center. She is also on the Research Board of the India, China, America Institute, is one of members of the US based Secretariat of the West China Development Studies Consortium and she serves as a board member for the Georgia China Alliance. She serves on the editorial boards of China Economic Review and The Indian Journal of Economics and Business.