At Columbia University, Wei is also affiliated with the School of International and Public Affairs and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
[1] His research covers international finance, trade, macroeconomics, and China, and he writes and speaks frequently in the area of U.S.-China economic integration and other international finance and trade issues.
[3] Wei was an associate professor of public policy at Harvard University, the New Century Chair in Trade and International Economics at the Brookings Institution.
[5] Wei has been a consultant to the U.S. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, United Nations Economic Commission on Europe, United Nations Development Program, the Asian Development Bank,[6] and private companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers.
He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of China's Evolving Role in the World Trade, with R. Feenstra (University of Chicago Press, 2010); The Globalization of the Chinese Economy, with J. Wen and H. Zhou (Edward Elgar, 2002); Economic Globalization: Finance, Trade and Policy Reforms (Beijing University Press, 2000); and Regional Trading Blocs in the World Economic System, with J.