Dr. Lei Pan is currently an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Economics and was the Economics Honours Course Lead in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance at Curtin University, Australia. He is also a Non-resident Research Fellow at the Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability (CDES), Monash University, Australia and an External Research Fellow at the Centre for Global Finance (CGF), SOAS University of London. He was an Adjunct Faculty at Soochow University, Taiwan. Prior to joining Curtin University, he was an Adjunct Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Economics in the School of Arts at Australian Catholic University.

He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Monash University, Australia. His research focuses on international economics, monetary economics and financial economics, with particular attention to exchange rate dynamics and monetary policy. He is also deeply interested in financial economics. His work investigates the intersection of macroeconomic policy and global financial markets, aiming to offer insights that address both theoretical and practical challenges in our increasingly interconnected world.

His research has been published widely in leading academic journals (ABS 4*/4), such as Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of International Money and Finance, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Energy Economics, International Review of Economics and Finance, Empirical Economics, Journal of Travel Research, Economic Modelling, Finance Research Letters, Tourism Economics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Applied Economics, and Tourism Analysis. His paper is one of the 72 most cited articles at Economic Modelling during 2018-2022 and is selected in the special issue for celebrating Economic Modelling as a top 20 journal in economics in 2023. He is the Associate Editor of Australian Economic Papers, and he is also currently serving as the Guest Editor for a special issue of Journal of Risk and Financial Management on the theme of "Monetary Policy in a Globalized World".

He is currently the macroeconomics group lead for Government of Ghana's economic policy think tank. He leads the team responsible for analysing economic conditions and emerging development chanllenges in Ghana's economy and assesses potential macroeconomic policy options that can support Ghana in its pursuit of sustainable growth.