Girum Abebe is a researcher at the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI). He obtained a PhD in Development Economics from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo, Japan. He has been actively engaged in the study of issues in industrial development focusing mainly on mechanisms firms employ to learn new knowledge from technology leaders at home and abroad, and the roles human capital and agglomerations economies play in the learning process. He has also been working on field experiment designs, particularly in the implementations and impact evaluations of business and management skills training to young entrepreneurs and the impact evaluation of job search assistance schemes to young unemployed job seekers.
Julia Cagé is assistant professor in Economics at Sciences Po Paris. She received her Economics PhD from Harvard University in 2014. She specializes in Political Economy, Economic History, and International Economics. She is particularly interested in the media, especially the question of how media competition affects the provision of information and political attitudes. She is also working on international trade, studying the impact of trade liberalization on developing countries.
Ha-Joon Chang teaches economics at the University of Cambridge. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, he has published fifteen authored books (four co-authored) and ten edited books. His main books include
The Political Economy of Industrial Policy (Palgrave, 1994),
Kicking Away the Ladder (Anthem Press, 2002),
Bad Samaritans (Bloomsbury, 2010),
23 Things They Don’
t Tell You About Capitalism (Bloomsbury, 2011), and
Economics: The User’
s Guide (Bloomsbury, 2014). By the end of 2014, his writings will have been translated and published in thirty-six languages and thirty-nine countries. Worldwide, his books have sold around 1.8 million copies. He is the winner of the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal Prize and the 2005 Wassily Leontief Prize. He was ranked number nine in the
Prospect magazine’s World Thinkers 2014 poll.
Stephany Griffith-Jones is currently financial markets director at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, based at Columbia University, and associate fellow at the Overseas Development Institute. Previously she was professorial fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University, where she is now Emeritus. Her fields of research include reform of the international financial architecture, management of capital flows, the role of development banks, policies for restoring European growth, and the structure and regulation of the financial sector (with special focus on low-income countries, she is currently leading a project on this for ESRC and DfID). She held the position of Deputy Director of International Finance at the Commonwealth Secretariat and worked at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as advising numerous governments and international organizations. She has published over twenty books and written many scholarly and journalistic articles. One of her recent books, edited jointly with José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph Stiglitz, is Time for the Visible Hand: Lessons from the 2008 World Financial Crisis (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Akio Hosono is the current senior research adviser and former director (2011–2013) of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Research Institute. He holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Tokyo. After graduation he served in a variety of posts such as Vice-President at Tsukuba University in Tsukuba Science City, Japanese Ambassador to El Salvador, and Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo, Professor at the Research Institute of Economics and Business Administration at Kobe University to name a few. His publications include Getting to Scale: How to Bring Development Solutions to Millions of Poor People (with Chandy, Kharas, and Linn, Brookings Press, 2013); Regional Integration and Economic Development (with Saveedra, and Stallings, Palgrave, 2003); and Development Strategies in East Asia and Latin America (with Saveedra, Macmillan Press, 1998).
Ewa Karwowski is a lecturer in economics at Kingston University, London, and a PhD candidate at SOAS, London. Ewa Karwowski has worked as an economic consultant for government authorities in emerging economies and international organizations. She has published on macroeconomic stability, financial fragility, and Islamic banking.
Danny Leipziger is professor of International Business, George Washington University, and managing director, the Growth Dialogue. He is former vice president of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network (2004–2009) at the World Bank. Over the course of his twenty-eight-year career at the World Bank, he held management positions in the East Asia Region and the Latin America and Caribbean Region, as well as in the World Bank Institute. Prior to joining the Bank, Dr. Leipziger served in senior positions at the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Department of State. He has also been a vice chair of the independent Commission on Growth and Development (2006–2010). He has published widely on topics of development economics and finance, industrial policy, and banking, including books on Korea, Chile, and East Asia and recent volumes Globalization and Growth (with Michael Spence, World Bank, 2010) and Stuck in the Middle (with Antonio Estache, Brookings Institution Press, 2009), and the most recent Ascent after Decline: Regrowing Global Economies after the Great Recession (with Otaviano Canuto, World Bank, 2012).
Annalisa Primi is senior economist at the OECD Development Centre in charge of analysis and policy advice on innovation and industrial development. She is the coordinator of the OECD Policy Dialogue Initiative on GVCs, Production Transformation and Development. She has been the lead economist for the OECD
Perspectives on Global Development 2013: Industrial Policies in a Changing World (OECD, 2013). From 2003 to 2009 she worked at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL). Her work focuses on the linkages among innovation, production development, and intellectual property and the role of the state in shaping development trajectories. She has extensive experience in targeted policy support and technical assistance in emerging and developing economies on innovation and industrial policies. She has a record of official and academic publications such as
Start-up Latin America: Promoting Innovation in the Region (OECD, 2013);
Industrial Policies and Territorial Development: Lessons from Korea (OECD, 2012); co-author of
Intellectual Property and Industrial Development: A Critical Assessment (with Cimoli, Dosi, and Stiglitz, Oxford University Press, 2009); and
Industrial Policy and Development (Oxford University Press, 2009). She holds a PhD in Economics from the School of Business and Economics of the University of Maastricht, an MA in International Cooperation and Economic Development from the University of Pavia (Italy), and a degree
cum laude in Economics of Institutions and Financial Markets at the University of Tor Vegata (Italy).
Florian Schaefer is research officer and PhD candidate in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS, University of London. He holds a BSc and an MSc from the University of Bristol and the London School of Economics, respectively. His PhD focuses on commercial agriculture and industrial policy in Ethiopia. Florian has spent several years living in Ethiopia, where he worked as an ODI fellow in the Ministry of Water and Energy and later as an independent researcher. He has published on industrial policy and the political economy of industrial policymaking in Ethiopia, as well as on power relations in defining how development is measured.
Go Shimada is Associate Professor of International Economics, Graduate School of International Relations, the University of Shizuoka, Visiting Scholar of Columbia University, Visiting Scholar of JICA Research Institute, Adjunct Researcher of Waseda University. Dr. Shimada joined JICA in 1992, where his past appointments have included Director, Trade and Investment Division, Department of Industrial Development, Special Assistance to the President, Office of the President, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations, New York. He has a PhD in International Studies from Waseda University and an MA in Economics from the University of Manchester.
Shahid Yusuf is currently chief economist of the Growth Dialogue at the George Washington University School of Business in Washington, DC. He holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University and a BA in Economics from Cambridge University. Prior to joining the Growth Dialogue, Dr. Yusuf was on the staff of the World Bank. During his thirty-five-year tenure at the World Bank, Dr. Yusuf was the team leader for the World Bank-Japan project on East Asia’s Future Economy from 2000 to 2009. He was director of the World Development Report 1999/2000, Entering the 21st Century. Prior to that, he was economic adviser to the senior vice president and chief economist (1997–1998), lead economist for the East Africa Department (1995–1997), and lead economist for the China and Mongolia Department (1989–1993). Dr. Yusuf has also authored or edited twenty-six books on industrial and urban development, innovation systems, and tertiary education, which have been translated into a number of different languages. He has written extensively on development issues, with a special focus on East Asia, and has also published widely in academic journals.