Wei-Bin Zhang, born in 1961, teaches and does research at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan. His main research fields are nonlinear economic dynamics, theoretical economics, growth theory, monetary economics, regional and international economics, urban economics, East Asian industrialization, and Chinese philosophy. He has published more than 100 academic articles and authored 21 books.
He was brought up in China. He graduated from Department of Geography, Peking University. He finished graduate study at Department of Civil Engineering, Kyoto University in Japan. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics at Department of Economics, University of Umeå in Sweden. He conducted research in Sweden from 1987 to 1998.