An economist who is originally from China, Ding’'s research focuses on international finance and financial economics. One of his dissertation projects applied market microstructure approach to study the operation of the foreign exchange market, and explained exchange rate dynamics that traditional macro models leave unexplained. He has extensive research experience on Asian financial markets, especially Chinese bond and stock markets and has published two papers in leading Chinese journals. EDUCATION: B.A., Nanjing University, P.R.China Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Ding has been teaching at Macalester since 2006.