Dr./Ms. Ye Yu is an Associate Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Institute for World Economy Studies at Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS). Her research and teaching focus primarily on global economic governance and China's role, with particular emphasis on international development finance and debt governance, as well as multilateral development banks. She has undertaken multiple projects commissioned by Chinese National Social Science Fund, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs among others. She has authored two monographs and published numerous academic papers and commentaries in both Chinese and English.

She serves as coordinator of the "China-U.S. Dialogue on the Global Economic Order" project, jointly initiated by SIIS and the Washington D.C.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She holds a Ph.D. in International Economic Law from Fudan University and has been a visiting scholar at Yale University, CSIS, the University of Dundee (UK), and the Lowy Institute (Australia).