Tianlei Huang

Tianlei Huang is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He joined the Institute as a research analyst in 2019 and was a research fellow during 2020–23 and a research fellow and China program coordinator during 2023–25. Before joining the Institute, Huang interned at the Brookings Institution's Center for East Asia Policy Studies, the Hudson Institute, and the World Resources Institute among other organizations.

Huang's research focuses on the Chinese economy. His forthcoming book, Detox: China's Fiscal Reckoning in the Shadow of the Bust, examines the implications of China's housing crisis for government finances. He also manages the Institute's China-related activities and co-organizes a bimonthly seminar series on US-China economic relations with the China Finance 40 Forum, a leading independent think tank in China.

Huang translated former Canadian Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff's Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics into Chinese, published by China's Central Compilation and Translation Press in 2017. He also co-translated historian Paul Ginsborg's Family Politics: Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900–1950 into Chinese; the translation has not yet been published in China.

Huang has been quoted or cited in major media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, the Economist, Financial Times, Bloomberg News, Nikkei Asia, South China Morning Post, and Caixin. He has written or coauthored commentary pieces for the Milken Institute Review, Foreign Policy, East Asia Forum, Global Asia, ThinkChina, South China Morning Post, VoxEU, China Daily, and Caixin.

Huang holds a master's degree in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a master's degree in political science from Tsinghua University in Beijing. He received his bachelor's degree in international politics from Fudan University in Shanghai. Huang is originally from Shanghai, China, and speaks Mandarin, Shanghainese, English, and Burmese.