Xiao-yuan Dong

BA, MA, PhD

Since arriving at UWinnipeg in 1993, Xiao-Yuan Dong established herself as a leading internationally reputed expert on China’s economic transformation and its gender implications. Dong, by example, has furthered the status of women in the field of economics while mentoring others.

Her work lays down important empirical foundations for understanding how China’s economy developed since the mid-twentieth century, affecting men and women differently. Her work has helped promote gender responsive policy-making in China.

Over the last two decades, she has made it her mission to mentor young Chinese female economists through the Chinese Women Economists Research Training Program at the China Centre for Economic Research, a program she co-founded with her colleague Zhao Yaohui of Peking University.

Their program has contributed to improving research capacity for Chinese female economists, raising their visibility, and has created new generations of female economists in China.

Her commitment to gender equality includes an undergraduate course she created on gender and the economy and a chapter on gender issues for a graduate-level course at UWinnipeg, all while she actively participated in its governance.

Her equity work was recognized by the Canadian Women Economics Committee which honored Dong with the Sylvia Ostry Award for furthering the status of women in economics through achievement and mentorship.

Dong is a widely cited, highly accomplished researcher. She has published 93 journal articles, book chapters, and policy reports. Her research had been funded by The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, International Development Research Centre, and the Ford Foundation, to list a few. Her research has earned her UWinnipeg’s Erica and Arnold Rogers Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship in 2006.

For Dong’s excellence in research, teaching, and service over her distinguished career, and for advancing economics for women across continents, UWinnipeg bestows upon her the title of Professor Emerita.