About
An Open Research Institute

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. Over the past few years, the Academy has developed a world-leading digital economy research community, dedicated to exploring and shaping discourse and consensus around the profound social and economic transformations brought by digital technology. With a focus on the long-term future of humanity, the common goal is to serve society through research, reduce the cost for human society to embrace the technological revolution, and address the most important challenges facing humanity.



Mission Statement


The Luohan Academy has a two-fold mission. The first is to understand how digital technology can help achieve the common good. The second is to help build a broad research community for systematic and in-depth research leading to new paradigms for solving first-order problems in the digital society. In this endeavor, the Academy will abide by the spirit of open science, operating independently under the principles of integrity, inclusion and diversity.





Community

Our community, which includes seven Nobel Prize Laureates in economics, is composed of Fellows from diverse backgrounds, disciplines, and countries, all united in their mission to help societies better embrace the challenges of the digital era.







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