Fu Xiaolan

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Biography

Ms. Fu Xiaolan is the Founding Director and serves as a Professor of the Technology and Management Centre for Development at University of Oxford Endowment. 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, The Rise of Technological Power in the South, and Exports, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development in China. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, and serves on the Editorial Boards of Oxford Development Studies, Industrial and Corporate Change, and four other international journals. She has published papers in leading international journals including the 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, World Economy, and Applied Economics. She received the European Commission Gate2Growth 2005 'European Best Paper' Award. Professor Fu has received research grants from prestigeous funding bodies including the European Commission, ESRC, EPSRC, British Academy, and the Cairncross Foundation, etc. She is project leader or co-leader of a £570,000 ESRC/DFID-funded project on The Diffusion of Innovation in Low-Income Countries; a £500,000 EPSRC-funded project on The Role of Management Practices in Closing Productivity Gap; a £350,000 EPSRC-funded project on Rural e-Services; and a EUR2.5 million European Commission FP7 project on Multinational Enterprises and Global Development. She has conducted consultancy research for UNDESA, UNCTAD, UNIDO, ILO, the Commonwealth Secretariat, UKTI and the Chinese government. Professor 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 Fudan University and Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. As a leading China expert, she has participated in various interviews and panel discussions in the mainstream media, including BBC Newsnight, BBC News, BBC Radio 2, Sky News, Arise News, People's Daily, China Daily and China Radio International. Professor 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.