Keynote Speakers & Special Guests:

· Professor Nanak Kakwani, University of New South Wales

· Dr. Emmanuel Y. Jimenez, Director General of Independent Evaluation, Asian Development Bank

· Professor John Gibson, University of Waikato

· Professor Peter Lanjouw, Director of LIS and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

· Professor Yaohui Zhao, Wuhan University

· Professor Paul S.F. Yip (tentative), University of Hong Kong

· Professor Shaohua Chen, Xiamen University

· Professor Philippe Van Kerm, University of Luxembourg

· Teresa Munzi, Executive Director, LIS

· Professor Qinghua Zhao, Xiamen University

Conference Highlights:

1. Leveraging LIS and Various Type of National Data for Research in the Era of AI /Big Data – Recent global research highlights and methodological advances

2. Selected Research Papers – Contributions from scholars and PhD students using LIS, Chinese, and other microdata

3. Policy Implications – Case studies illustrating how diverse datasets inform economic and social policy

4. Issues on Data and Measurement  

5. Press Release – Launch of the Chinese Household Consumption Report, a joint project with Alibaba’s Ant Research Institute