Tony Fang
Tony Fang is the Stephen Jarislowsky Chair in Economic and Cultural Transformation and Full Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, as well as an Adjunct Professor with the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University. He currently holds the J. Robert Beyster Faculty Fellowship at Rutgers University.
Over his career, Fang has served on the World Bank's Expert Advisory Committee on Migration and Development (2014–19) and was Director of the Master of International Business Program at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia (2013–14). He was President of the Chinese Economists Society (2012–13) and Domain Leader at CERIS, Ontario Metropolis Centre (1999–2012). He has held visiting professorships at Harvard University and NBER, Wharton School, City University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Tsinghua University, Fudan University, University of Science and Technology of China, and Hanyang University (South Korea).
In 2017, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in recognition of his commitment to inspiring better ways of thinking, acting, and delivering change.
Selected Publications
Fang, T., & Wells, A. (2023). Diaspora Economics (external link) . In K. F. Zimmermann (Ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (pp. 1–23). Springer International Publishing.
Fang, T., Xiao, N., Zhu, J., & Hartley, J. (2022). Employer Attitudes and the Hiring of Immigrants and International Students: Evidence from a Survey of Employers in Atlantic Canada (external link) . Canadian Public Policy, 48(S1), 17–37.
Fang, T., Zhang, T., & Hartley, J. (2023). Examining Determinants of Employers’ Attitudes toward Hiring Immigrant Workers: Evidence from an Employer Survey (external link) . Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 1–16.