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Yuan Yang

Associate fellow, IPPR

Yuan was an associate fellow at IPPR

Yuan Yang is an economist, journalist and author. She is contributing to IPPR's research on global trade. Yuan was until recently the Financial Times' Europe-China correspondent, and previously spent six years in Beijing, where she was the FT's deputy bureau chief.

Before becoming a journalist, Yuan co-founded Rethinking Economics, a charity headquartered in Manchester, UK that campaigns to make economics teaching more relevant to the real world.

Yuan has a book forthcoming with Bloomsbury (UK) and Penguin Viking (US) on the rise and fall of social mobility in China, told through the stories of four Chinese women born during the reform era of the 1980s. She was elected MP for Earley and Woodley in July, 2024.

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