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Joseph Wong is the Ralph and Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation, Director of the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs, Canada Research Chair in Democratization, Health and Development, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. In addition to academic articles and book chapters, he has published four books: Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea (2004) and Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia’s Developmental State (2011), both published by Cornell University Press, as well as Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems: Learning to Lose, co-edited with Edward Friedman (2008), and Innovating for the Global South: Towards a New Innovation Agenda, co-edited with Dilip Soman and Janice Stein (forthcoming, 2014). He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard, Oxford, Seoul National University, National University of Singapore and the Institute for National Policy Research in Taipei. He has advised the United Nations, the World Bank, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the World Health Organization, as well as for governments in Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia. In 2008, he was elected Senior Member of St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, and appointed Senior Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada in 2011. He was honored with the Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Award in 2013. Joseph earned his Hons. B.A from McGill (1995) and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2001).