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Jun Zhang
Jun Zhang is currently a Cheung-Jiang professor and dean of School of Economics at Fudan University, and director of the China Center for Economic Studies. He publishes widely. Recent academic contributions have been to The World Economy, China Economic Review, Economic Systems, the Journal of Asian Economics, the Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, and the East Asian Review.
Wan-wen Chu
Wan-wen Chu is a research fellow at the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica in Taiwan, and adjunct professor of economics at the National Taiwan University. She has published studies on East Asian economic development, especially regarding industrial policy, and is the co-author of Beyond Late Development: Taiwan's Upgrading Policies (MIT, 2003, with Alice Amsden).
Keun Lee
Keun Lee is a professor of economics at the Seoul National University, and the director of the Center for Economic Catch-up. He has been awarded the 2014 Schumpeter Prize for his monograph on Schumpeterian Analysis of Economic Catch-up: Knowledge, Path-Creation and the Middle Income Trap (Cambridge University Press, 2013) by the International Schumpeter Society.