About Us
The purpose of the Luohan Academy is to serve society at large, addressing the most important global challenges as well as having an eye toward humanity’s long-term future.
An Open Research Institute.
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The Luohan Academy was founded in Hangzhou on June 26, 2018. It is an open research institute initiated by the Alibaba Group and launched by world-renowned social scientists, including seven Nobel Prize laureates in economics, and comprising the Academy’s academic committee.
The Academy is dedicated to collaborating with leading social scientists and practitioners worldwide, to collectively explore and shape discourse and consensus around the tremendous social and economic transformations brought by digital technology. The purpose of the Luohan Academy is to serve society at large, addressing the most important global challenges as well as having an eye toward humanity’s long-term future.
The Academy is dedicated to collaborating with leading social scientists and practitioners worldwide, to collectively explore and shape discourse and consensus around the tremendous social and economic transformations brought by digital technology. The purpose of the Luohan Academy is to serve society at large, addressing the most important global challenges as well as having an eye toward humanity’s long-term future.
Programs
This is the age in which plentiful data, analytical firepower, and the cross-fertilization of leading social-science minds from multiple disciplines stimulates unprecedented insights.
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Privacy and Data GovernanceData has become the fundamental driving force for economic growth and innovation. Due to its unique nature and as a mechanism for value creation, every link produced by data has also brought challenges in consumer privacy, data security, and data ownership. By promoting the understanding from researchers, policymakers, and business experts from all over the world, Luohan Academy aims to push for a consensus on data governance best practices, privacy protection, and data security so that we can better integrate data into our daily life effectively, safely, and trustingly. -
Measuring the New EconomyDigital technology has been reforming the economy in an unprecedented way. It brings along new business models, increasing varieties of goods, widespread availability of free services, and ever-growing importance of intangible assets. All of these have a profound impact on the measurement of economic activity and, thus how we understand economic prosperity and, ultimately, social welfare. With big data enabled by technology, Luohan Academy works closely with academia, policy-makers, and business leaders to achieve ever-updating insights on the fundamental changes and measurement of the actual impact. -
SustainabilityThe world is in urgent need of transformation toward sustainability in environmental, economic and social dimensions for humanity as a whole. This transformation must be harmonized with the opportunities, threats and dynamics of the increasing digitalization processes. The Sustainability program aims to investigate the various options to make digitalization a fundamental driver and source of instruments for sustainability innovations. -
Future FinanceThe nature of finance is to allocate scarce resources across sizes, time, and risks, and to facilitate the real economy and innovation. Similar to Industrial Revolution, the digital revolution has changed the financial services, institutions, and financial markets profoundly. Based on worldwide frontier financial innovations, Luohan Academy leads the research on future finance with scholars and policy makers, to promote an inclusive, affordable, diverse, and sustainable financial system for the real economy. -
Digital Technology and Inclusive GrowthDigital technologies exhibit the features of zero marginal cost and network effects bring welfare externalities. This promotes inclusive business activities and inclusive financial services. Luohan Academy engages in research on how does technology innovations bring long term growth space and the methods to deal with the various challenges along the way. -
Platform EconomicsEnabled by digital technology, platform creates coordination at unprecedented scale. However, concerns and debates over the platforms' growing market power, the social responsibility of platforms, and the rules on platforms, are looming. It is time to bring together the insights of researchers, policy makers and practitioners to think about the platform's value, governance and more inclusive future.
We believe that truth can only be uncovered through open and critical discussion, along with active communication with the public.
The purpose of the Luohan Academy is to serve society at large, addressing the most important global challenges as well as having an eye toward humanity’s long-term future.
Our Fellows come from different backgrounds, disciplines, and countries. Their mission is to help societies better embrace the challenges of the digital era.
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