Barry Naughton is an economist and So Kwanlok Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, at the University of California, San Diego.

Naughton has published extensively on the Chinese economy, with a focus on four interrelated areas: market transition; industry and technology; foreign trade; and Chinese political economy. His pioneering study of Chinese economic reform, Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978-1993 (Cambridge University Press, 1995) won the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. Naughton’s comprehensive survey, The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth, was published by MIT Press in 2007; the revised and updated version, The Chinese Economy: Adaptation and Growth appeared in March 2018.  Naughton received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1986. ​