Dr Xiaolan Fu is Director of Sanjaya Lall Programme for Technology and Management for Development and Fellow of Green-Templeton College, Oxford University. She is also project co-leader of several EPSRC and ESRC funded projects and a Senior Research Associate at the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge. Dr Fu is the author of Exports, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development in China and serves on the Editorial Board of Oxford Development Studies and the International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development. Her papers appear widely major international journals. She received the European Commission Gate2Growth Academic Network 2005 ‘European Best Paper’ Award, and has conducted consultancy research for ILO, UNCTAD, UNIDO, UKTI and the Chinese government. Dr Fu serves on the Advisory Expert Group for the OECD Global Investment Forum and the Board of Directors of the Chinese Economic Association (UK/Europe).