Economic history moves in waves. Each technological revolution reshapes production, upends competitive advantage, and opens a window for late developers to break through. I work on the political economy of those transitions: who captures them, who misses them, and what states, firms, and international institutions can do to ensure they lead to broad-based prosperity.
I am an economist, Policy and Research Lead at the Technology and Industrialisation for Development (TIDE) Centre, University of Oxford. I work at the frontier of economic development, technological change, and sustainability, with a particular focus on industrial policy design, technology governance, and the geopolitics of the green transition.
I advise governments, international organisations, civil society groups, and financial institutions on economic diversification and innovation strategies, regional cooperation frameworks, and strategic projects for economic catch-up.
My research has been published in leading academic journals — including Development and Change and the Review of International Political Economy — as well as in general-audience outlets such as Le Monde Diplomatique, Le Grand Continent, and El Universal.
I hold a PhD from the University of Cambridge, supervised by Professor Ha-Joon Chang. Prior to my PhD, I completed a Master's in International Economic Policy and an undergraduate in Politics & Economics degrees at Sciences Po Paris.
Examines Mexico's capacity to translate manufacturing breadth into endogenous technological accumulation, drawing on the experiences of Taiwan's ITRI and Singapore's A*STAR. Proposes a concrete institutional vehicle — Technological Learning Accelerators — and sets out ten design principles for their implementation.
Proposes a new model of coordinative optimisation for regional industrial policy, drawing on ASEAN's flexible institutionalism, the Airbus precedent, and the limits of EU-style cooperative maximalism. Introduces three interlocking mechanisms — triple flexibility, folk-theorem iteration, and sovereignty protection — that allow coordination without supranational authority.
A recovery of the intellectual foundations of sustainable developmentalism, tracing how core principles that once linked ecological concern with productive transformation have been progressively abandoned — and what it would take to reclaim them.
A critical assessment of UNCTAD's 2024 Trade and Development Report, engaging its analysis of structural disadvantages facing commodity-dependent economies, its diagnosis of barriers to technology access, and the limits of its prescriptions on industrial policy and policy space.
Examines the conditions under which regional coordination of green industrial policy can be realised, drawing on the ASEAN case. Analyses how horizontal policies acquire a more strategic dimension at regional scale and why vertical coordination remains far rarer — with lessons for other regions seeking to align their industrial strategies.
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