Prior to joining the University of Michigan, Ms. Ang was on the faculty of Columbia University SIPA, where she taught political and economic development. Her book, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Cornell University Press, Series in Political Economy, 2016), won the 2017 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize for “outstanding book in political economy." Currently, she is writing a second book on unbundling corruption, supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation. Ang has written op-eds for The Wall Street Journal, Project Syndicate, The Conversation, Devex, and other outlets. In 2017, she served on the United Nations Expert Group on Eradicating Poverty. She received her PhD from Stanford University.