Professor Sai Ding
- Professor in Economics (Economics)
telephone:
01413305066
email:
Sai.Ding@glasgow.ac.uk
6120, Adam Smith Building, 2 Discovery Place, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G11 6EY
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1621-8656Biography
Sai is a Professor of Economics at the Adam Smith Business School. Before joining Glasgow in 2010, she earned a PhD in Economics from the University of Birmingham and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in Economics at the University of Oxford.
Professor Ding has an extensive publication record in corporate finance, economic development, productivity, and international trade, with her research appearing in leading economics and finance journals. She serves as Co-editor of the Review of Development Economics and as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Chinese Economic & Business Studies. From 2021 to 2024, she was Co-head of the Economics subject area, where she focused on internationalization and the line management of early career colleagues.
Professor Ding has successfully organised numerous international academic events, including the 2023 Royal Economic Society (RES) Conference, as well as multiple workshops on the Chinese economy and various public lectures and seminars, both in-person and online, primarily in collaboration with Nankai University in China. She is also a member of the ESRC Peer Review College, a reviewer for the British Council and the Newton Fund, and a Research Assessor for the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Additionally, she serves as a mentor for the Royal Economic Society Women's Committee and is an external member of the China Research Group at Nottingham University Business School.
CV: Sai Ding CV
Research interests
Sai is a member of the School's Applied Economics research cluster.
Areas of expertise:
- Productivity and trade;
- Corporate finance;
- Growth and development;
- The Chinese economy.
Grants
01/2020-12/2023 Co-Investigator, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Research Grant on the project of ‘Inter-Regional Industrial Policy Competition, Market Segmentation and Spatial Misallocation’ (480,000 CNY) with Wei Jiang (Principal Investigator, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China)
01/2018-12/2020 Co-Investigator, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Research Grant on the project of ‘A Micro-level Study on the Impact of Fiscal Policy Volatility on Resource Misallocation in China’ (200,000 CNY) with Wei Jiang (Principal Investigator, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China)
11/2016-07/2017 College of Social Sciences Senior Research Fellowship at Columbia University (£3,180)
January 2016 - May 2016: Workshop funding (£13,500) from the Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE), the Confucius Institute at the University of Glasgow, and the Adam Smith Business School.
March 2015 - March 2016: Academic Returns and Research Support Grant (£9,200) from the College of Social Science, University of Glasgow
May 2013 - September 2013: Workshop funding (£12,000) from the Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE), the Confucius Institute at the University of Glasgow, and the Adam Smith Business School.
April 2009 - December 2009: Principal Investigator, ESRC Small Research Grant (£74,420) on the project of 'Understanding Enterprise Investment in China' (Ref No. RES-000-22-3140) with Professor Alessandra Guariglia (University of Birmingham) and Professor John Knight (University of Oxford).
Supervision
Sai is interested in supervising projects examining:
- Trade and productivity
- Innovation
- Infrastructure and development
- Corporate finance and investment
- The Chinese economy
Current doctoral superivision
Teaching
Postgraduate:
- Growth and Development (MSc);
- Money, Finance and Growth (MSc).
Undergraduate:
- Economic Growth, Finance and Development (Honours; level 3).
Additional information
- April 2014-present: Research Assessor of Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
- November 2012-present: Editorial Board member, Europe-Asia Studies
- July 2010-present: Member of ESRC Peer Review College
