On October 17, Christopher Pissarides, the Nobel Prize winner in Economics and professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, entered the Nobel Prize in Economics Workstation at ZUFE and was awarded the Certificate of Honorary Professor. Professor Pissarides, Jinchang Li, Secretary of the university’s Party Committee, Zhanrong Li, Vice President, and relevant functional departments, unit leaders, and representatives of faculty and students attended the ceremony. This is the third Nobel Prize in Economics winner who signed a contract with ZUFE Nobel Economics Prize Workstation, following Eric Maskin, the winner of Nobel Economics Prize and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and Finn Kydland, the Nobel Economics Prize winner and Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University and University of California, Santa Barbara.
Mr. Li welcomed Professor Pissarides’ arrival and introduced the development of the school in recent years. He said that the joining of Professor Pissarides will further increase the strength of ZUFE’s Nobel Prize in Economics Workstation. The school will give full play to the research strengths of the Nobel Prize winners, further enhance research competitiveness and popularity, and improve the school's discipline development and collaborative innovation capability.
Professor Pissarides expressed his gratitude to the school for the warm reception. He said that joining ZUFE’s Nobel Prize in Economics Workstation laid a good foundation for cooperation between the two sides. The ZUFE Nobel Prize in Economics Archive boasted really rich and significant collections. He hoped that he would enhance exchanges and communications with the Archive in the future.
Subsequently, Mr. Li, on behalf of the school, awarded the Certificate of Honorary Professor to Pissarides. Mr. Li then, on behalf of the school, signed an agreement with Pissarides. Pissarides presented his autographed works to the ZUFE Nobel Prize in Economics Archive, and the archive director Liqun Wu accepted the donation on behalf of the school.
Professor Pissarides also visited the ZUFE Nobel Prize in Economics Archive and delivered an academic lecture for teachers and students of ZUFE, “Working Prospects and Artificial Intelligence in the Age of Robots.”
The joining of the third Nobel Prize winner has further enriched ZUFE’s scientific prowess in the field of Economics and demonstrated the school’s ever-increasing international influence, which will give its full play to the strengths of academic discipline and scientific research and better fuel local economic and social development.
