Panle Jia Barwick is the Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished Chair Professor in the Department of Economics at UW-Madison. Her expertise includes Industrial Organization, Chinese Economy, Applied Microeconomics, and Applied Econometrics with a strong interest in environmental economics. Her papers have appeared in top Economic journals, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economic Studies. She is a co-founder and co-director of UW-Madison’s Pan Asia Pacific Sustainability Initiative (PAPSI). She also co-founded Cornell Institute for China Economic Research (CICER) and currently serves as its board member. She is a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), associate editor for the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Rand Journal of Economics, and International Journal of Industrial Organization, and an editorial board member of Journal of Urban Economics and VoxChina. Before UW-Madison, she was an assistant and associate professor in the Economics Department at MIT from 2006 to 2013, and an associate professor and professor in the Economics Department at Cornell from 2013 to 2022. She received degrees in Economics from Fudan University (B.A.), Tufts University (M.A.), and Yale University (Ph.D.).