I received my BA from Princeton University and a doctorate from Harvard University. After a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the MIT Industrial Performance Center, I returned to Princeton as Assistant Professor in the Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Politics. I moved to Oxford to take up my current post in 2005.

My research focuses on the interaction of firms, institutions, and technological change in East Asia. My recent work has sought to understand how increasing digitisation and the rise of platform-based business models have impacted the organisation of global value chains and the firms within them. In previous work I focused on industrial upgrading in China, and examined how technology, the segmentation of markets, and government policy shaped the dynamics of competition between foreign and local firms in China.

This short VoxEU piece gives a sense of my recent research:
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/emergence-massive-modularity-new-form-industrial-organisation-and-what-it-means

A longer World Bank working paper can be found here:
https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/099219104232540081