Leslie Young
Executive Director, the Asia-Pacific Institute of Business
Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Prof. Leslie Young was born in Guangzhou and holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and a D.Phil. in Mathematics from Oxford University. This was completed at age twenty, and won the Senior Mathematics Prize for the best dissertation of his year. He is Professor of Finance at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he teaches courses in Money and Capital Markets and Options and Futures. He is concurrently the Executive Director of The Asia-Pacific Institute of Business.

Before coming to Hong Kong, he was V.F. Neuhaus Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. His fields of interest are international trade, international finance and financial economics. His publications include Black Hole Tariffs and Endogenous Redistribution Theory (Cambridge University Press) and The Hong Kong Securities Industry, The China Securities Manual (Chinese University Press) and over forty academic articles in leading professional journals. He is the longest-serving member of the Editorial Board of the American Economic Review, the leading academic journal in economics.

Prof. Leslie Young has served as consultant to the Government of Mexico on the North American Free Trade Agreement and to the Government of New Zealand on the consequences of floating the exchange rate. He has also consulted in lawsuits arising in the savings and loans industry in the United States and has taught executive trainees for CS/First Boston and for the Foreign Trade Institute in Guangzhou.