Short Bio

Dr. Wei Xie is tenured associate professor at School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences in Peking University. He is also deputy director of China Center for Agricultural Policy in Peking University. His research focuses on climate change and food security policy. He has published more than 50 papers in international journals, such as Nature, Nature Plants, Nature Food, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. His paper about climate change and beer drought received the 2018 Altimetric Top 100 award and was the most “talked about” climate change-related paper in media and social media. Currently he is PI/Co-PI of 6 projects about food security and economics of climate change. Based on his research, he also submitted several policy briefs to the government to aid policy decisions. 

Personal Information

   Current Positions:

Associate Professor, China Center for Agricultural Policy (CCAP), School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University

   Current Address:

No. 5 Yiheyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, China

Ph: (86)-10- 64889835  Fax: (86)-10-64856533

Cell: (86)-152-1098-0869

E-mail: xiewei.ccap@pku.edu.cn 

Areas of Specialization

Climate change and food economics; Food security policy; Food demand, supply, marketing, and trade; Economics of climate change and natural hazards; Computable General equilibrium (CGE) modeling; Agricultural commodity partial equilibrium model 

Education

Ph.D. in Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, 2014

Doctoral Thesis: Economic Consequences of Natural hazards in the Context of Climate Change and the Special Role of Resilience: An Analysis with Computable General Equilibrium Policy Modeling 

B.S. in Environmental Science, Department of Environmental Economics, Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, China, 2008 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

January 2022 to Now

Associate Professor, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, China Center for Agricultural Policy (CCAP), School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University

April 2016 to December 2021

Assistant Professor, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, China Center for Agricultural Policy (CCAP), School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University

June 2014 to March 2016

Assistant Professor, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, CAS

October 9-13, 2015

Participant, 2015 GTAP Dynamic Short Course, Purdue University, USA

July – October 2013

Visiting Scholar, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California

November 2010 - December 2013

Visiting Scholar, Development research center of the state council, China 

Publication

​1.  Xie, Wei; Zhu, Anfeng; Ali, Tariq; Zhang, Zhengtao; Chen, Xiaoguang; Wu, Feng; Huang, Jikun; Davis, Kyle Frankel; Crop switching can enhance environmental sustainability and farmer incomes in China, Nature, 2023

2.  Chen, Xiaoguang; Chen, Luoye; Xie, Wei; Mueller, Nathaniel D.; Davis, Steven J. ; Flight delays due to air pollution in China, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023

3.  Deng Qinyu, Xie Wei*, Wang Ke Impacts of extreme temperature on rice yields and implications for rice production in China, Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy, 2022

4.  Cui Xiaomeng, Xie Wei. Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change through Growing Season Adjustments: Evidence from Corn in China. American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2022). 00(00): 1–24; doi:10.1111/ajae.12227

5.  Ali Tariq, Xie Wei*, Zhu Anfeng, Davis Frankel Kyle. Accounting for re-exports substantially reduces China’s virtual water demand through agricultural trade. Environmental Research Letters (2021). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abe9ec

6.  Xie Wei, Huang Jikun, Wang Jinxia, Cui Qi, Robertson Ricky: Climate Change Impacts on China's Agriculture: The Responses from Market and Trade, China Economic Review, 62 (2020) 101256

7.  Xie Wei^*, Xiong Wei, Pan Jie, Ali Tariq, Cui Qi, Guan Dabo*, Meng Jing, Mueller Nathan, Lin Erda*, and Davis Steven: Decreases in global beer supply due to extreme drought and heat, Nature Plants 4, 964-973, 2018

8.  Ali Tariq, Huang Jikun, Wang Jinxia, Xie Wei^*: Global footprints of water and land resources through China's food trade, Global Food Security, 12, 139–145, 2017

9.  Huang Jikun, Wei Wei, Cui Qi, Xie Wei: The prospects for China’s food security and imports: Will China starve the world via imports? Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 16(12), 2933-2944, 2017

10. Xie Wei, Ali Tariq, Cui Qi, Huang Jikun: Economic Impacts of Commercializing Insect-resistant GM Maize in China, China Agricultural Economic Review, 9(3): 340-354, 2017

TEACHING EXPERIENCES

1.  Food Market and Trade, Instructor for graduate students, Peking University

2.  The Economics of Climate Change, Instructor for undergraduate and graduate students, Peking University

3.  Principles of CGE model and Programming, Summer school of Peking University