Professor Jane Golley is an economist in the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University (ANU). Jane is an ANU graduate (BEc, Hons, 1993). Jane's life-long interest in China began with a brief stint in the Asia Section of the Australian Commonwealth Treasury in 1993, before she left for the University of Oxford, where she wrote her Dphil thesis on 'The Dynamics of Chinese Regional Development: Market Nature, State Nurture'.

Jane has taught the Masters-Level Chinese economy course at the Crawford School since 2016. She is actively engaged with politicians, bureaucrats, diplomats and the media in public policy debate regarding China's rise and the Australia-China relationship. She was co-editor of the China Story Yearbook series from 2016 to 2021, with titles including Control, Prosperity, Power and Crisis. Jane has served as the President of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia and the Chinese Economic Society of Australia, and a Board member of the Australia-China Relations Institute, UTS. She is a long-standing Executive Member of the Australia-China Business Council (ACT).

Jane specialises in the Chinese economy, doing applied research on a wide range of inter-disciplinary development issues. Past research has covered: regional development and inequality; household consumption and carbon dioxide emissions; rural-urban migration and urbanisation; rural-urban and gender inequalities in education and earnings; and inter-generational transmission of education outcomes.

Her current research interests include the impact of China's Rural Nutrition Improvement Program on rural women's labour outcomes and fertility choices and spatial, rural-urban and gender inequalities in China's higher education sector.