Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jacob Kurien

Hopkins-Nanjing Center faculty are an integral part of the HNC community.  In addition to their teaching and research interests, they are actively involved in campus life.  For example,  they can often be found joining students for lunch in the Center's cafeteria, cheering on the HNC basketball and dragonboat teams, and advising students in co-curricular activities like moot court.  We recently checked in with Professor Jacob Kurien about his research interests and academic pursuits over the last year.

Professor Kurien teaches "Development Economics"

Professor Jacob Kurien is a resident professor of International Economics at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center. 

• Professor Kurien is currently focused on China's currency and its prospects for internationalization. 
• During the 2013-2014 academic year, he taught Macroeconomics, Development Economics, Economics of Globalization, and International Monetary Theory and Policy.
• In March of 2013, Professor Kurien and former Hopkins-Nanjing Center MAIS student Bernard Geoxavier had a paper published in the Harvard Kennedy School Review: "A Roadmap for RMB Internationalization: Navigating the Economic and Political Challenges to the Rise of China's Currency".  
• In December 2013, he attended a conference in Sri Lanka and presented a paper at the 2nd International Economics Research Conference titled "Trends in Capital Flows and the Prospects for Renminbi Internationalization: What lies Ahead?" His paper can be found on page 81.
• More recently in March of 2014, Professor Kurien was invited to deliver a guest lecture at Lishui University in Zhejiang, China.  The topic of his lecture was "Economic Transition and Financial Reforms in China."

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