About the Convenors

• Kahee Jo is a postdoc researcher at the Institute of Korean Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on identifying the pathway from industrial development to political change. She particularly pays attention to business power and industrial policymaking and received her doctoral degree in development politics at King’s College London with her thesis “Business Structural Power of Big Business in Green Industrial Policy”. Kahee continues to research the change in state-business relations and contemporary development strategies, particularly in North and South East Asia.
• Guanie Lim is Assistant Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan. His main research interests are comparative political economy, value chain analysis, and the Belt and Road Initiative in the Global South. His latest monograph — The Political Economy of Growth in Vietnam: Between States and Markets (published by Routledge) — details the catching-up experience of Vietnam since its 1986 doi moi (renovation) reforms.
• Jewellord Nem Singh is Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor of International Development at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), part of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is the principal investigator of a five-year research programme worth €1.5 million funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under Grant No. 950056 entitled Green Industrial Policy in the Age of Rare Metals: Transregional Comparison of Growth Strategies in Rare Earth Mining (GRIP-ARM). He is the author of Business of the State: Why State Ownership Matters for Resource Governance (Forthcoming, Oxford University Press).
• Bank Ngamarunchot is the director at the Science Technology and Innovation Policy Institute (STIPI), Thailand. His work focuses on development economics, political economy, and industrial policy. He developed a concept of “developmental labor” as a critical factor for escaping from the Middle-Income Trap in his thesis.
• Pattarat Phantprasit is a research at the Science Technology and Innovation Policy Institute (STIPI), Thailand.
• Jesada Temaismithi is a research at the Science Technology and Innovation Policy Institute (STIPI), Thailand.  His research interest is on policies and management of science, technology, and innovation, especially in the realm of quantum technologies.
• Kritdikorn Wongswangpanich, a researcher at the Science Technology and Innovation Policy Institute (STIPI), Thailand, has a research focus on the development of scientific rationality and also electoral policy. His work focuses on the change to modernity using scientific regime of truth and Newtonian time as the criterion.
• Linda Tjia Yin Nor is an Assistant Professor of Development Studies at the Department of Public and International Affairs, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.  She has published on China’s domestic transport and logistics development, as well as the political economy of China’s overseas infrastructural and industrial projects. Recently she has acquired the Sumitomo Foundation Grant (2020-2022) to investigate the high-speed rail rivals between China and Japan; and the Hong Kong Research Grants Council Early Career Scheme (2021-2024) to study China’s industrial projects in Kazakhstan.

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