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Xiaolan Fu

Professor Xiaolan Fu (Chinese: 傅晓岚; pinyin: Fù Xiǎolán) is a British-based Chinese economist, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.[1] She is the Founding Director of the Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD).[2] She is a Professor of Technology and International Development and Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford.[3]

Xiaolan Fu
Professor Xiaolan Fu at the World Investment Forum 2018
BornAugust 17, 1967
China
Academic career
FieldDevelopment Economics, Technology, Innovation, Trade, FDI
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge; University of Oxford (ODID), Green Templeton College; Fudan University; Tsinghua University
Alma materLancaster University Management School
AwardsEuropean Commission EFMD Gate2Growth 2005 'European Best Paper' Award
Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2012 Outstanding Paper Award
European Association of Management (EURAM) annual conference Innovation Strategic Interest Group 2017
Best Paper Award[citation needed]

Life

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Xiaolan Fu was born in China on August 17, 1967, and she came to post graduate study at Lancaster University with her family. She completed her master's degree in a year and attained her economics doctorate in 2003. She wrote her thesis on the economics of her home country under the supervision of Vudayagi Balasubramanyam.[4]

She was appointed by the Secretary-General[5] of the United Nations to the Ten-Member High Level Advisory Group of the UN Technology Facilitation Mechanism[6] and to the Governing Council of the UN's Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries.[7] She is also a member of the UN SDSN Leadership Council[8] led by Jeffrey Sachs.

Appointments

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Professor Fu has been appointed as member of the scientific board of Globelics (Global Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems),[9] member of the high-level group of the International Science Council,[10] and has been a consultant for UNDESA, UNCTAD, UNIDO, the World Bank, OECD, European Commission, ILO, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and UKTI. She 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 2010–2011. 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’.[citation needed]

In 2024, Professor Fu was appointed as the director of Oxford Advanced Research Centres (OARC) by the University of Oxford, which wholly owns the Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR). [11]

Professor Fu has been selected as one of ten winners in the Science and Innovation Management category of the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the year 2021.[12]

Her research interests include innovation, technology, and industrialization; trade, foreign direct investment and economic development; emerging Asian economies; innovation and productivity in UK/USA.[citation needed] In 2016, Professor Fu was a keynote speaker at the first Huawei European Academic Salon, where she shared her research on international innovation as well as university-industry linkages.[13] She has published extensively in leading international journals independently or in collaboration with others. Her recent books include Innovation under the Radar (forthcoming), 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.[citation needed]

Professor Fu received research grants from funding bodies including the European Commission, ESRC, EPSRC, British Academy, DFID, and the Cairncross Foundation.[14] She has also received the European Commission EFMD Gate2Growth 2005 'European Best Paper' Award, Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2012 Outstanding Paper Award, European Association of Management (EURAM) annual conference Innovation Strategic Interest Group 2017 Best Paper Award[15][16][citation needed], and the best paper award in the  ‘Corporate and start-up collaboration’ track at the 2021 R&D Management Annual Conference.[17]

Professor Fu came to Oxford from Cambridge University in 2006, where she was a senior research fellow. Before coming to the UK to begin her career in academia, she had five years’ work experience in the business sector in China.[citation needed] She is a Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford[18] 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.[19]

Media presence

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Professor Fu had a large presence in the media in regards to the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on the world's economic climate both in the present and future. She began these interactions shortly after the pandemic began and continued until her last interview published under her University of Oxford staff biography. For such an interview, Professor Fu focused mainly on the short and long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on international trade and various innovations that will take place as a cause of this.

Selected publications

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Books and monographs
Articles[20]

Current research

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  • MNEmerge project: MNEs and global development
  • Valuation of early-stage technology
  • Understanding innovation in low-income country
  • Diffusion of innovation in low-incomes country
  • The Role of Internationalisation on Technological Capability-Upgrading in Developing Countries
  • The Inclusive Digital Model project

References

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  1. ^ "Xiaolan Fu named Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences | TMCD". www.oxfordtmcd.org. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  2. ^ "The Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD)".
  3. ^ "GTC-Fellowship". www.gtc.ox.ac.uk. UK: University of Oxford.
  4. ^ "Xiaolan Fu".
  5. ^ "UN Secretary General appoints Professor Xiaolan Fu to the Governing Council of the Technology Bank for the Least Developed Countries". www.socsci.ox.ac.uk. UK: University of Oxford.
  6. ^ "Home .:. Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform".
  7. ^ "Interim Council of the Technology Bank".
  8. ^ "Xiaolan Fu". unsdsn.org.
  9. ^ "TMCD Director, Prof Xiaolan Fu, appointed to the scientific board of Globelics | TMCD". www.oxfordtmcd.org. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  10. ^ "High-level group appointed to lead the development of the ISC's strategy in the intergovernmental system". International Science Council. 29 March 2021. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  11. ^ "Professor Xiaolan Fu | TMCD". www.oxfordtmcd.org. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
  12. ^ "Breaking the Wall of Technology Valuation Bottlenecks | TMCD". www.oxfordtmcd.org. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  13. ^ "Prof Xiaolan Fu advises Huawei Technologies on innovation collaboration as keynote speaker at the inaugural Huawei European Academic Salon". www.oxfordtmcd.org. UK: University of Oxford.
  14. ^ "The Diffusion of Innovation in Low Income Countries". UK Research and Innovation. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
  15. ^ "Calculating the value of technology start-ups | University of Oxford". 10 August 2017.
  16. ^ "Innovation".
  17. ^ "TMCD Research wins best paper award at the 2021 R&D Management Annual Conference. | TMCD". www.oxfordtmcd.org. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  18. ^ "Professor Xiaolan Fu – Professor of Technology and International Development, Fellow of Green Templeton College: About". UK: University of Oxford. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  19. ^ "Professor Fu testifies at US Congressional Hearing on China Ahead of the 13th Five Year Plan". www.oxfordtmcd.org. UK: University of Oxford.
  20. ^ List of publications by Xiaolan Fu, TMCD, Oxford, UK.
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