Professor Xiaolan Fu, PhD

Xiaolan Fu is Director of the Technology and Management for Development Centre (TMD), Professor of Technology and International Development and Fellow of Green Templeton College. She is also project leader or co-leader on several EPSRC and ESRC funded projects, including a £500,000 ESRC/DFID-funded project on The Diffusion of Innovation in Low-Income Countries.

Her research interests include innovation, technology and industrialisation; trade, foreign direct investment and economic development; emerging Asian economies; innovation and productivity in UK/US. Her recent books include China’s Role in Global Economic Recovery (Routledge, 2011), The Rise of Technological Power in the South (Palgrave, 2010), and Exports, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development in China (Palgrave, 2004) and she serves on the Editorial Boards of Oxford Development Studies, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies and three other international journals. She has published papers in top journals including Journal of Management Studies, World Development, Research Policy, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Small Business Economics, International Business Review, and World Economy.

She received the European Commission Gate2Growth 2005 'European Best Paper' Award, and has conducted consultancy research for ILO, UNCTAD, UNIDO, UKTI and the Chinese government. Dr Fu serves on the Advisory Expert Group of the OECD Global Investment Forum and the DFID/ESRC Economic Growth Directorate (DEGP), and is President of the Chinese Economic Association (Europe) and CEA (UK) in 2010-11. She is also a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge and University of Tsinghua, and a Visiting Professor at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. As a leading China expert, she has participated in various interviews and panel discussions at mainstream media including BBC Newsnight, BBC News, BBC Radio 2, Sky News and China Radio International.

Prof Fu came to Oxford from Cambridge University, where she was a Senior Research Fellow. Before coming to the UK, she was an Associate Professor in international trade and finance at a higher education institution of the central bank of China.

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