Dr Junji Xiao is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney.
He is also a tenured Associate Professor at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. Dr Xiao received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He is an economist with research interest in the fields of empirical industrial organisation, environmental economics and China's economy. His recent work has focused on the Chinese automobile industry and explored such topics as the competition structure, the welfare effect of environmental policies and the vertical restraints of the industry. His research papers have been published in academic journals such as the International Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Journal of Environmental Economics & Management. Dr Xiao taught at UTS Business School, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Fudan University and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, respectively. He was awarded the German DFG Fellowship in 2001 and the Hong Kong RGC grant in 2016 and 2022.