Xiaolan Fu


Professor Xiaolan Fu , is a British-based Chinese economist. She is the Founding Director of the Technology and Management Centre for Development, She is a Professor of Technology and International Development and Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford.

Life

Xiaolan Fu was born in China in 1967 and she came to post graduate study at Lancaster University with her family. She took a master's degree in a year and attained her economics doctorate in 2003 with a thesis on the economics of her home country. Her supervisor was Vudayagi Balasubramanyam.
She was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to the Ten-Member High Level Advisory Group of the UN Technology Facilitation Mechanism and to the Governing Council of the UN's Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries. She is also a member of the UN SDSN Leadership Council led by Jeffrey Sachs.

Appointments

Xiaolan Fu has been a consultant for UNDESA, UNCTAD, UNIDO, the World Bank, OECD, European Commission, ILO, the Commonwealth Secretariat, UKTI, and the Chinese government. Prof. Fu serves on the Advisory Expert Group of the OECD Global Investment Forum and the DFID/ESRC Economic Growth Directorate, and is President of the Chinese Economic Association and CEA in 2010–11. She has served on the Management Committee of the Oxford University China Centre since 2015. She is also a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge and University of Tsinghua, and a Visiting Professor at Fudan University. As a China expert, she has participated in various interviews and panel discussions at mainstream media including BBC, Sky News, CCTV, CGTN, People's Daily, and China Daily. In 2014, she was invited to address the UN General Assembly on ‘Science, technology and innovation in developing countries’.
Her research interests include innovation, technology, and industrialization; trade, foreign direct investment and economic development; emerging Asian economies; innovation and productivity in UK/USA. In 2016, Fu was keynote speaker at the first Huawei European Academic Salon, where she shared her research on international innovation as well as university-industry linkages. She has published extensively in leading international journals independently or in collaboration with others. Her recent books include Innovation under the Radar, China's Path to Innovation, China's Role in Global Economic Recovery and The Rise of Technological Power in the South. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, and serves on the Editorial Boards of Industrial and Corporate Change, International Journal of Technology Management, and four other international journals.
Xiaolan Fu received research grants from funding bodies including the European Commission, ESRC, EPSRC, British Academy, DFID, and the Cairncross Foundation. She has also received the European Commission EFMD Gate2Growth 2005 'European Best Paper' Award, Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2012 Outstanding Paper Award, and European Association of Management annual conference Innovation Strategic Interest Group 2017 Best Paper Award.
Prof. Fu came to Oxford from Cambridge University in 2006, where she was a senior research fellow. Before coming to the UK, she had five years’ work experience in the business sector in China before embarking on her academic career. She is a Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford and is associated with Queen Elizabeth House. She testified on "the impact of China's Five-year Plans on Strategic Industries" at the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission Congressional Hearing

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