C. Y. Cyrus Chu received his Ph.D. (Economics) from the University of Michigan (1985), and was a John Olin Fellow at Stanford Law School (1991-92), and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at U.C. Berkeley (1992-93). He is an elected Academician (2008), and currently a distinguished research fellow, of Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He is also an elected Foreign Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2017). He has been serving as an Editorial Board Member of the prestigious Journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States) since 2022.