Research Areas:
Macroeconomics, growth and development and labor

Prof. Rachel Ngai received her BSc in Economics from HKUST in 1996 and PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001. She has been tenured at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) since 2007, and is currently Professor in Economics. She is concurrently Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and member of the Centre for Macroeconomics at LSE. Since 2020, she has been one of the theme leaders of the Structural Transformation and Economic Growth under the CEPR’s auspice. 

Prof. Ngai’s research interests include macroeconomics - growth and development, structural transformation, labor markets and housing markets. In 2014, she was awarded the Excellence in Refereeing Award by The Review of Economic Studies and the Mid-Career Fellowship by the British Academy.