Prof. ZHANG Linxiu Elected TWAS Fellows
TWAS’s 25th General Meeting opened in Muscat Oman, on Saturday, from 26th to 29th October, 2014. More than 300 scientists, policymakers, educators and others from 56 countries attended the meeting.
On the morning of 26th, TWAS announced the election of 46 new members as TWAS Fellows. Among them, ten are women. Professor ZHANG Linxiu is one of these ten women new TWAS Fellows.
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Prof.ZHANG Linxiu atTWAS25thGeneral Meeting（Image by CCAP） |
Professor ZHANG Linxiu, Deputy Director, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy(CCAP), Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences, has worked in the areas of public investment on poverty, and regional inequality and rural labour market. She has used state-of-art rigorous impact evaluation method – Randomized Controlled Trails (RCTs) to conduct policy experiments and assess the impacts. Among others, she has received "The Fudan Management Excellence Award"for 2014, TWAS Celso-Furtado Prize in Social Sciences for 2013 the CAS 'Ten Most Outstanding Women in Science Award' for 2012.
ABOUT TWAS
The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries – TWAS – works to advance sustainable prosperity through research, education, policy and diplomacy. TWAS was founded in 1983 by a distinguished group of scientists from the developing world, under the leadership of Abdus Salam, the Pakistani physicist and Nobel Prize winner. Today, TWAS has some 1,150 elected Fellows from 90 countries; 15 of them are Nobel laureates.
