About Shin-Kun Peng
Born 1956. Shin-Kun Peng is a Taiwanese economist.
Shin-Kun Peng (; born 1956) is a Taiwanese economist specializing in regional science who has been vice president of Academia Sinica since 2024.
Education and career Peng graduated from National Cheng Kung University with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in transportation engineering in 1979 and a Master of Science (M.S.) in transportation engineering in 1982. He then completed doctoral studies in the United States, earning his Ph.D. in regional economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989. His doctoral dissertation was titled, "City structure, agglomeration and urban configuration in spatial economy".
Peng has been a joint professor of economics at both National Taiwan University (since 2003) and National Cheng Kung University (since 2009). He has also been a distinguished research fellow of economics at Academia Sinica since 2011.
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