joestudwell
joestudwell
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Hello. I am an author, journalist, public speaker and occasional university teacher. I am based much of the time in Cambridge. In the 2000s I restored and lived in a home in a still unspoiled area of central Italy.
My books are The China Dream (2002, about the 1990s foreign investment gold rush in China), Asian Godfathers (2007, about developmental failure in south-east Asia) and How Asia Works (2013, an explication of economic development across the east Asian region). How Asia Works has its own site where reviews and other material specifically related to the book are posted.
I recently completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge. My advice is don’t ever do one. The PhD might become a book, if I can face it, which very possibly I cannot. Meanwhile, I have started out on a much more interesting project looking at developmental success in Africa, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Omidyar Network. This will become a book in 2022.
I am also currently Senior Visiting Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute in London and a non-executive director of Edinburgh-based Pacific Horizon Investment Trust.
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