Henry Wai-chung Yeung received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1995. He

has been Professor of Economic Geography at the Department of Geography, National

University of Singapore since July 2005. He was a recipient of the National University of

Singapore Outstanding University Researcher Award (1998) and Outstanding Research

Award (2008), the Institute of British Geographers Economic Geography Research Group

Best Published Paper Award (1998), the Commonwealth Fellowship (2002), the Fulbright

Foreign Research Award (2003), and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Team and Individual

Residency in Bellagio (2005/2012). His research interests cover broadly theories and the

geography of transnational corporations, Asian firms and their overseas operations and

Chinese business networks in the Asia-Pacific region.

He has over 85 research papers published or forthcoming in internationally refereed journals

and 40 chapters in books. He is Editor of Environment and Planning A, Economic

Geography, and Review of International Political Economy, Asia-Pacific Editor of Global

Networks, Contributing Editor of International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and

Business Manager of Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. He sits on the editorial

boards of 14 other international journals in the fields of human geography, management,

urban studies, area studies, and general social science, such as Asia Pacific Journal of

Management, European Urban and Regional Studies, Journal of Economic Geography, Asia

Pacific Viewpoint, and Eurasian Geography and Economics. During 2003-2005, he was the

East Asia Director, Asia Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. He is

also the Southeast Asia Representative in the Commonwealth Geographical Bureau

Management Committee, 2001-2008.

Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (1994), 'Critical reviews of geographical perspectives on business organisations and the organisation of production: towards a network approach', Progress in Human Geography, Vol.18(4), pp.460-90. Cited 82 times as of 8 May 2012.

Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (1998), 'Capital, state and space: contesting the borderless world'[size=-1], Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol.23(3), pp.291-309. Cited 112 times as of 8 May 2012.

Dicken, Peter, Kelly, Philip, Olds, Kris and Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (2001), 'Chains and networks, territories and scales: towards an analytical framework for the global economy'[size=-1], Global Networks, Vol.1(2), pp.89-112. Cited 256 times as 8 May 2012.

Henderson, Jeffrey, Dicken, Peter, Hess, Martin, Coe, Neil and Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (2002), 'Global production networks and the analysis of economic development'[size=-1], Review of International Political Economy, Vol.9(3), pp.436-64. Cited 250 times as of 8 May 2012.

Yeung, Henry Wai-chung and Lin, George C.S. (2003), 'Theorizing economic geographies of Asia', Economic Geography, Vol.79(2), 107-28. Cited 79 times as 8 May 2012.

Coe, Neil, Hess, Martin, Yeung, Henry Wai-chung, Dicken, Peter and Henderson, Jeffrey (2004), ‘”Globalizing” regional development: a global production networks perspective’[size=-1], Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol.29(4), pp.468-84. Cited 198 times as of 8 May 2012.

Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (2005), 'Rethinking relational economic geography[size=-1]', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol.30(1), pp.37-51. Cited 138 times as of 8 May 2012.

PUBLICATION 2011

Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (2011), ‘From national development to economic diplomacy? Governing Singapore’s sovereign wealth funds’, The Pacific Review, Vol.24(5), pp.625-52.