Dr Fu Xiaolan is Director of the Technology and Management for Development Centre, Professor of Technology and International Development and Fellow of Green Templeton College. She also leads several British Research Council funded projects, including a ￡600,000 project on The Diffusion of Innovation in Low-Income Countries. Her latest book is China’s Role in Global Economic Recovery (Routledge, 2011). She received the European Commission Gate2Growth 2005 'European Best Paper' Award, and has conducted consultancy research for many international organisations and the Chinese government. Dr Fu serves on the Advisory Expert Group of the OECD Global Investment Forum and is President of the Chinese Economic Association (Europe) and CEA (UK). She is also a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge and Tsinghua University, and a Visiting Professor at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. As a leading China expert, she has been interviewed by many top media organisations. Dr Fu has many years of experience working in the academic and business sectors in China.