David Dollar

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David Dollar, who passed away on October 6, was the World Bank’s country director for China and Mongolia from 2004 to 2009. David was also my boss, mentor, and friend and we remained in regular touch ever since our days in Beijing. David was an outstanding economist who believed in fact-based dialogue, and who dedicated his working life to research on development, on China, and on the increasingly fraught US-China relationship. This is my tribute to him.Thanks for reading Bert’s Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.David held several other World Bank positions, including Director of Development Policy in the World Bank’s Development Economics Department. After leaving the World Bank, he became the U.S. Treasury’s Economic and Financial Emissary to China (2009–2013), where he was central to the Strategic and Economic Dialogue between China and the USA. At the time of his death from complications of a viral pneumonia, he was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, focusing on China’s economy and US–China economic relations.When David landed in China to take op his post in 2004, he was hardly new to the country. Almost 20 years before, he had taught economics at the China Academy of Social Sciences, where he also met his wife Paige. At the time, David was assistant professor in economics at the University of California Los Angeles, after receiving his PhD from New York University. Besides economics, he had also studied Chinese since his undergraduate days, including on a scholarship in Taiwan.In between his two China st…