Thomas G. Rawski joined the University of Pittsburgh’s Economics faculty in 1985 after spending 15 years at the University of Toronto. He retired in 2017. His research focuses on the development and modern history of China’s economy. Recent publications include “China’s Great Boom as a Historical Process,” (with Loren Brandt) in The Cambridge Economic History of China (Cambridge University Press, 2022); Policy, Regulation and Innovation in China’s Electricity and Telecom Industries (2019, co-edited with Brandt); “From Divergence to Convergence: Reexamining the History behind China’s Economic Boom” (with Brandt and Debin Ma), Journal of Economic Literature (2014); Tales from the Development Frontier (with 3 co-authors; World Bank, 2013); and China’s Great Economic Transformation (co-edited with Brandt; 2008).