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Curriculum Vitae
Ha-Joon Chang, a Korean national, was born in Seoul, Korea on 7 October 1963.
He earned his B.A. from the Department of Economics, Seoul National University,
Korea, and earned his M.Phil. and Ph.D. from the Faculty of Economics, University of
Cambridge. He has taught at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, since
1990. He has also served as a member of the editorial board of Cambridge Journal of
Economics since 1992.
Apart from his academic activities, Ha-Joon Chang has worked as a consultant
for numerous international organisations, including various UN agencies (UNDESA,
UNCTAD, WIDER, UNDP, UNIDO, UNRISD, INTECH, FAO, ECLAC, and ILO),
the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. He has also worked as a consultant
for the governments of Canada, Japan, South Africa, the UK, and Venezuela on
development policies.
Ha-Joon Chang has published twelve authored books (four of them co-authored)
and nine edited books (six of them co-edited). His most recent books include Kicking
Away the Ladder – Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (Anthem Press,
2002), Globalization, Economic Development and The Role of the State (Zed Press,
2003), and Reclaiming Development – An Alternative Economic Policy Manual (with
Ilene Grabel; Zed Press, 2004), Bad Samaritans (Random House, 200, and Bloomsbury
USA 2008). He has also published numerous articles in journals including, among
others, Cambridge Journal of Economics, World Development, Journal of PostKeynesian Economics, Journal of Development Studies, International Organization,
and European Journal of Development Research on issues such as: theories of the state,
market, and institutions; globalisation; trade and industrial policies; the East Asian
economies. His writings have been translated into 15 languages (Arabic, Chinese,
Esperanto, French, German, Greek, Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian,
Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish).
Ha-Joon Chang is the winner of the 2003 Myrdal Prize, awarded to his book,
Kicking Away the Ladder, by the European Association for Evolutionary Political
Economy (EAEPE) and the winner (jointly with Richard Nelson of Columbia
University) of the 2005 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic
Thought awarded by Tufts University.