Power and Sustainability of the Chinese State

Keun Lee is the director of the Institute for China Studies and a professor of economics at the Seoul National University, Korea. His main research topic is the economics of catch-up applied in the context of corporate governance and growth, industrial policy, and innovation and technology policy in Korea and China. Joon-Han Kim is currently President of the POSRI (Posco Research Institute). Previously, he was a Senior Fellow at the Daegu-Gyeongbuk Development Institute, the Construction & Economy Research Institute of Korea (CERIK), the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade (KIET), and also taught at the Hanyang University. His main areas of research are public finance and industrial economics. Wing Thye Woo holds the New Century Chair in International Trade and Economics at the Brookings Institution (Washington, DC). He is also Professor at the University of California (Davis), the Yangtze River (Zhang Jiang) Professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics (Beijing), and the Director of the East Asia Program in the Earth Institute, Columbia University.