Yasheng Huang

Yasheng Huang is an American professor in international management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he founded and heads the China Lab and India Lab. His research areas include human capital formation in China and India.

Early life and education
Huang was born in Beijing, China. He moved to the United States to pursue his higher education, and enrolled for a B.A. degree program, with a major in government from Harvard College, which he completed in 1985. Upon completion, he went on to earn a Ph.D. in government from John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1991.

Career
While he was preparing for his Ph.D, he worked as a World Bank consultant and associate professor at the University of Michigan from 1987 to 1989. In 1997, he joined Harvard Business School as the Associate Professor in business, government and international economics.

He is currently an Epoch Foundation (of Taiwan) professor in international management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, joined in 2003. At MIT, he founded and heads the China Lab and India Lab. His research areas include human capital formation in China and India.

Huang is a participant of the Task Force on U.S.-China Policy convened by Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations.