David Dollar (November 21, 1954 – October 8, 2023) was an American economist and China scholar who served as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's John L. Thornton China Center between July 2017 and October 2023.
[6] Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, he graduated with a BA in Chinese History and Language from Dartmouth College in 1975 and a PhD in economics from NYU in 1984.
[1] Between 2009 and 2013 Dollar served as the U.S. Treasury Department's Economic and Financial Emissary to China.
[8][9] Creating a better environment for development as an objective of US policy, Brookings Institution, December 2022 (co-authored with Patricia Kim, Louison Sall, and Jonathan Stromseth)[10] What China needs to do if it wants to achieve its ambitious economic goals by 2049, CNN, June 21, 2021 (co-authored with Yiping Huang and Yang Yao)[11] The Foreign Policy Essay: Will China's Economy Dominate the 21st Century?
Lawfare, January 4, 2015[12] The Creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Is the Right Move for the Global Economy, NYT, October 22, 2014[13] Spreading the Wealth, Foreign Affairs, January 1, 2002 (co-authored with Aart Kraay)[14] What's the best case scenario for US-China relations?