I am a Joint Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science and Agricultural & Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and an incoming Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Center on Contemporary China (CCC) at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) at Princeton University. Before, I was a Predoctoral Visiting Scholar in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University.

I am a political scientist and economist studying authoritarian regimes, with a focus on China. My research examines the interplay between politics and the economy, including how the distribution of power affects economic performance, how political preferences are structured in authoritarian contexts, and how politics and technological change interact to shape the economy.  Methodologically, I combine theoretical models with empirical methods of causal inference to answer substantive research questions.

Prior to Wisconsin, I received my MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics as a Lee Family Scholar and my Bachelor of Economics and Finance from the University of Hong Kong as an HKU Foundation Scholar. 

My name is pronounced /Ming-Tsong Pan/, and you can reach me via email: mingcong.pan@wisc.edu.