Yi Gang

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yi Gang (born 1958) is the Director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange and Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China. Yi Gang was born in Beijing. He studied at Beijing University and Hamline University and obtained his Ph.D in Economics from University of Illinois. He became an Associate Professor with tenure at Indiana University and then joined the faculty of Beijing University as professor, vice head of the Center for Economics Research, and Ph.D advisor in Economics. He went to the People's Bank of China in 1997 and then successively served as Deputy Secretary-General and Secretary-General of the Monetary Policy Committee, Deputy Director-General and Director-General of the Monetary Policy Department, and Assistant Governor, as well as President of the Operations Office from September 2006 to October 2007. In December 2007, he was appointed Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China. In 2009, he became Director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE).