Rui Dang PhD, FRSA is an associate professor in economics at Ala-too International University, an external researcher and PhD advisor at the Tashkent State University of Economics and the program director for the Postgraduate Diploma/MSc program in Applied Health Economics (online) at the University of South Wales in collaboration with Learna / Diploma MSc. He has also served as a guest professor in demographic economics at Gdansk University of Technology. Currently, he is serving as an expert for UNESCO's inclusive policy lab, an global roster of expert for the International Science Council, an invited expert for WHO's scientific consultations in topics such as health evaluation and knowledge translation, an advisory council member of the Harvard Business Review, a co-convener for the Special Interest Group of the Economics of End-of-Life Care and Palliative Care,  under the iHEA-International Health Economics Association(https://www.healtheconomics.org/).  He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts based in London. He is also a member of the OECD Forum Network, World Economic Forum, and the Chatham House.

He has been an European Commission external expert(EX2021D413167). He has served as a research grant evaluator for the European Commission and the UK Research and Innovation. Since 2020, He has also been engaged in the knowledge mobiliser network of the UK parliament. In addition,  he is a member of the Education Committee, Global Health Competencies Sub-Committee and SDG(Sustainable Development Goals) Taskforce at the CUGH-Consortium of Universities of Global Health(Washington D.C., USA). He also a member of the scientific advisory committee(SAC) of the EHMA-European Health Management Association (Brussels, Belgium), and a Global Labor Organization fellow (Bonn, Germany). He has been serving as an associate editor for the IJTAHC-International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (Cambridge University Press), an editorial board member of the Journal of Migration and Health(Elsevier) and SSM Health Systems (Elsevier). He has been in the abstract review committee of the International Health Economics Association Scientific Committee Review Panel for the 2023 Congress, the CUGH-Consortium of Universities for Global Health Global Health Conference 2023, 2022, 2021; and the European Health Management Association Annual Conference 2022, the 6th International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference 2022. He has served as a jury for the Lancet Global Health-CUGH Global Health Best Poster Competition 2022. He holds a PhD in economics from Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, plus postdoc level health policy analysis training at Dartmouth College, USA.