Edited by Arkebe Oqubay, Minister and Coordinator of Economic Sectors and Senior Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, and Justin Yifu Lin, Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics, and Professor and Honorary Dean, National School of Development, Peking University
Arkebe Oqubay is a Minister and Senior Adviser to the Ethiopian Prime Minister and has been at the centre of policymaking for over twenty five years. He is a former Mayor of Addis Ababa and Minister of Works and Urban Development. He currently serves as board chair of several leading public organizations and international advisory boards. He is a research associate at the Centre of African Studies at SOAS University of London, UK. He is the author of Made in Africa: Industrial Policy in Ethiopia (OUP, 2015) and co-editor of ow Nations Learn (OUP, 2019) and The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy (OUP, 2019). He was recognized as one of the 100 most influential Africans of 2016 and a 'leading thinker on Africa's strategic development' by the New African for his work on industrial policies. His research focuses on structural transformation, catch-up, industrial policy, and policymaking, with a special emphasis on Africa.
Justin Yifu Lin is Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics and Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, and Professor and Honorary Dean of the National School of Development at Peking University. He was the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at the World Bank, 2008-12. He had previously served for fifteen years as founding director and Professor in the China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University. He is a councillor of the State Council and a member of the Standing Committee, Chinese People's Political Consultation Conference. He has written more than 20 books, and is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics (OUP, 2015) and The Oxford Handbook of Structural Transformation (OUP, 2019). He is a corresponding fellow of the British Academy and a fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World.
Arkebe Oqubay and Justin Yifu Lin are joint editors of China-Africa and an Economic Transformation (OUP, 2019).
Edlam Abera Yemeru, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Aradhna Aggarwal, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Ludovico Alcorta, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
Tilman Altenburg, German Development Institute, Germany
Do-Thien Anh-Tuan, Fulbright University, Vietnam
Antonio Andreoni, SOAS University of London, UK
Rashmi Banga, UNCTAD
Michael H. Best, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA (Emeritus)
Richard Bolwijn, UNCTAD
Jorge Carrillo, El COLEF, Mexico
Bruno Casella, UNCTAD
Fantu Cheru, American University Washington DC, USA and Leiden University, The Netherlands
Jorge Cornick, University of Winconsin, USA
Christopher Cramer, SOAS University of London, UK
Saul de los Santos, AXIS, Mexico
Alisa DiCaprio, R3, USA
Thomas Farole, World Bank
Belachew Fikre, Ethiopian Investment Commission
Aklilu Fikreselasie, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
Douglas Fuller, City University of Hong Kong, China
Gioacchino Garofoli, Insubria University, Italy
Padmashree Gehl Smpath, Harvard University, USA
Gary Gereffi, Duke University, USA
Anabel González, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Sanghoon Kim, Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade, South Korea
Sang Hee Kim, Urban Regeneration Plus, UK
Özge İzdeş, Istanbul University, Turkey
Jorge Katz, University of Chile, Santiago
Deborah M. Kefale, development practitioner
Tan Khee Gaip, Asia Competitiveness Institute
Won Kidane, Seattle University, USA
Hisaki Kono, Kyoto University, Japan
Akfumi Kuchiki, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Gopi Krishan, Institute of Capital Market Research, Malaysia
Josaphat Kweka, Talanta International, Tanzania
Michael A. Landesmann, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, Austria
William Lazonick, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
Yin Li, Fudan University, China
Wilfred Loo, Singapore Institute of Planners
John Mathews, Macquaire University, Australia
Jörg Mayer, UNCTAD
Celestin Monga, African Development Bank Group
Deepak Nayyar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Patrick Neveling, University of Bern, Switzerland
Carlos Oya, SOAS University of London
Eva Paus, Mount Holyoke College, USA
Carlo Pietrobelli, University Roma Tre, Italy
Ramola Ramtohul, University of Mauritius
Rajah Rasiah, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Arianna Rossi, International Organization-International Finance Cooperation
José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs
AnnaLee Saxenian, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Florian T. Schaefer, London School of Economics, UK
Joris M. Schroder, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, Austria
Maria V. Sokolova, International Trade Center
Hah-Zoong Song, KyungHee University, South Korea
Cornelia Staritz, University of Vienna, Austria
Howard Stein, University of Michigan, USA
Dirk Willem te Velde, Overseas Development Institute, UK
Taferre Tesfachew, Consultant
Sebastián Torres, UNDP
Vu-Thanh Tu-Anh, Fulbright University, Vietnam
Fiona Tregenna, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Giovanni Valensisi, UNCTAD
Kasper Vrolijk, German Development Institute, Germany
Lindsay Whitfield, Roskilde University, Denmark
Jung Won Sonn, University College London, UK
Xinyi Wu, Duke University, USA
Junjie Xia, Peking University, China
Tang, Xiaoyanf, Tsinghua University, China
Jianjun Xu, Peking University, China
Tan Kong Yam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jacqueline Yang, New York University, USA
George Yeo, Kerry Logistics Network
Shahid Yusuf, George Washington University, USA
James Zhan, UNCTAD
Jun Zhang, Fudan University, China
Yu Zheng, Fudan University, China
Douglas Zhihua Zeng, World Bank