Professor Debin Ma

Professor Debin Ma

PhD

History, Economics

Quondam Fellow since 2024

Debin was the Professor of Economic History and University Academic Fellow at All Souls from 2022 to 2024.

Research Areas

Economic History

Growth and Development

Comparative Institutional and Legal History

Chinese Economy

East Asian Studies

Background

University Academic Fellow (Professor of Economic History), All Souls College (from 2022 to 2024)
Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (from 2019 to 2021)
Lecturer (2006-2011); Senior Lecturer (2011-2013); then Associate Professor (2013-2020), Department of Economic History, London School of Economics
Associate Professor, National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies and Faculty Fellow of the Foundation for Advanced Studies, Tokyo (from 2002 to 2006)
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Fellow of the Center for International Studies, University of Missouri at St. Louis (from 2000 to 2003)
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Asian Historical Statistics Project, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, and Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (from 1998 to 2000)