Prof. YANG Cuihong was elected as the Vice-President of the IIOA (International Input-output Association).

Prof. YANG is a full professor of the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). She focuses on the following research areas including global value chain (GVC) and trade in value-added, input-output technique and major crops output forecasting, water conservancy investment. In particular, the work of her team on global value chain and trade in value-added capturing China’s trade heterogeneity and related work was accepted by Ministry of Commerce of China and further put forward into real policies. Their policy reports have been adapted to the documents on GVC of APEC 2014. OECD and WTO praised their groundbreaking work and adopted their methodologies in newly released OECD-TiVA databases. OECD and WTO have been committed to recommending China’s pioneering work to their member economies in recent years. She was the member of OECD Expert Ground on Extended Supply and Use Tables. She was invited to give keynote speeches in many international conferences, workshops, including series of meetings on GVC by OECD and WTO. She has received several prizes and honors, e.g., National Award for Youth in Science and Technology (2013), National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2011), Sun Yefang Economic Award (2009), IFORs ‘Operational Research in Development Prize (1st class, 1999).

The International Input-Output Association (IIOA) is a scientific non-profit membership organization founded in 1988. Its objective is the advancement of knowledge in the field of input-output analysis, including improvements in basic data, theoretical insights and modelling, and applications, both traditional and novel, of input-output techniques. The IIOA grew out of an informal world-wide network of economists, government officials, engineers and managers with interests in input-output analysis.