Chen Yulu

Chen Yulu
陈雨露

Deputy Governor of People's Bank of China
Incumbent
Assumed office October 2015
Governor	Zhou Xiaochuan
President of Renmin University of China
In office November 2011 – October 2015
President of Beijing Foreign Studies University
In office March 2010 – November 2011
Preceded by	Hao Ping
Succeeded by	Han Zhen
Personal details
Born	November 1966 (age 50) Gaocheng, Hebei
Nationality	Chinese
Political party	Communist Party of China
Relations	Chen Xu (grandfather) Chen Xiaodong (uncle) Chen Ju (uncle)
Residence	Beijing
Alma mater	Renmin University of China
Occupation	economist, educator, author, politician
Profession	Finance

Chen Yulu (simplified Chinese: 陈雨露; traditional Chinese: 陳雨露; pinyin: Chen Yǔlù; born November 1966) is a Chinese economist, educator, author, and politician who has been deputy governor of People's Bank of China since October 2015. He has previously held appointments in the Renmin University of China as the president.

He is a visiting professor at Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation and Columbia University. He is vice-president of All-China Youth Federation (ACYF). He is vice-chairman, deputy secretary-general and executive director of China International Finance Society.

Chen was born in November 1966, in Gaocheng County of Shijiazhuang, Hebei, with his ancestral home in Chenghai County, Guangdong. His great-great-grandfather was a calligrapher, his great-grandfather was an official in the Qing government. His grandfather Chen Xu (陈恕) was an educator who settled down in British Hong Kong after the Chinese Civil War. His uncle Chen Xiaodong (陈晓中) is the former president of Beijing Planetarium, and his another uncle Chen Ju (陈榘) is a professor at Hubei Normal University. After the high school, he joined the PLA Air Force as a soldier. In 1957 when Mao Zedong launched his Anti-Rightist Movement against intellectuals, his father was sent to the May Seventh Cadre Schools to do farm work, in Yangtai Village of Shijiangzhuang, capital of Hebei, where he was born.