Rate My Professor Lei Pan

Dr. Lei Pan is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance at Curtin University, appointed since July 2020, tenured since 2023, and Economics Honours Course Lead since 2022. He earned his PhD in Economics from Monash University in 2019 with a thesis titled Essays on Financial Markets, a Postgraduate Diploma in Economics and Commerce in 2014 achieving First Class Honours equivalent, and a Bachelor of Business and Commerce majoring in Economics in 2012, all from Monash University. He also passed CFA Level I from the CFA Institute in 2017. Previously, he served as Adjunct Lecturer in Economics at Australian Catholic University from July 2018 to March 2020, handling national lecturing and chief examining for intermediate macroeconomics, and as Adjunct Faculty at Soochow University from 2021 to 2023. Currently, he holds positions as Non-resident Research Fellow at Monash University's Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability since 2023, External Research Fellow at SOAS University of London's Centre for Global Finance since 2024, and Macroeconomics Group Lead for the Government of Ghana's policy think tank since 2025, advising on fiscal policy, monetary trends, and structural reforms.

Lei Pan's research focuses on international economics, monetary economics, and financial economics, particularly exchange rate dynamics, monetary policy spillovers, and macroeconomic policy interactions with global financial markets. His publications appear in leading journals such as Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (forthcoming: The role of remittances and FDI for the current account: the case of Cambodia, with Veasna Kheng and Xiaodong Fan), Macroeconomic Dynamics (2026: US sneezing and Australian colds: economic spillovers in both conventional and unconventional monetary policy times, with Richard Adjei Dwumfour and Mark N. Harris), Journal of International Money and Finance (2026: Exchange rate flexibility and firms' employment, with Silvio Contessi et al.), and Energy Economics (2021: Energy poverty and public health: global evidence, with Ashenafi Biru and Sandra Lettu; Per capita carbon emissions convergence in developing Asia: a century of evidence from covariate unit root test with endogenous structural breaks, with Takashi Matsuki). His scholarship has over 800 citations on Google Scholar. Awards include Finalist for Curtin University's Business, Society and Communities ECR Award (2021), Dean's Purple Letter for Teaching Excellence (Monash, 2020), Vice Chancellor's Purple Letter (Monash, 2019), and various Monash scholarships. He is Early Career Researcher Editor for Australian Economic Papers and Guest Editor for Journal of Risk and Financial Management's special issue on Monetary Policy in a Globalized World, and referees for top journals.