Dr. Penelope Prime
Professor of International Business — J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University
Beginning with her first visit to China in 1976, Penelope Prime has decades of experience studying and working within Chinese culture and the dynamic Chinese economy. After majoring in Chinese studies and studying Mandarin as an undergraduate, she earned a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Michigan. She was one of the first U.S. graduate students to do dissertation research in China after the U.S. and China normalized relations in the late 1970s.
Dr. Prime's research focuses on China's economy and business environment. Her articles have appeared in Applied Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Pacific Economic Review, and Business Economics, among others. In 2001 she launched the China Research Center, a center of expertise on contemporary China. She serves on the editorial boards of China Economic Review and the Indian Journal of Economics and Business.