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Professor Ramamurti does research and consulting on strategy and innovation in emerging economies. His earlier work also focused on business-government relations in emerging economies. He has published several articles and books on multinationals from emerging markets and on the topic of 鈥渞everse innovation.鈥� He teaches courses on the global business environment and global strategy, and electives on Competing in Emerging Markets. 

Awards & Recognition
Honored as 鈥淭he most outstanding thought leader on strategy and innovation in Emerging Markets in the world in 2017,鈥� by Global Awards 2017, London (Nov 2017)
Winner, 2017 Best Paper in Global Strategy Journal Award, Strategic Management Society (at SMS annual meeting in Houston, October 31, 2017)
Elected Fellow, Academy of International Business, 2008

Ho-Fung Hung is a professor of Political Economy at the Johns Hopkins University's Sociology Department and the Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. His scholarly interest includes global political economy, protest, nation-state formation, social theory, and East Asian Development. He received his bachelor's degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, his master's degree from SUNY-Binghamton, and his doctorate in Sociology from Johns Hopkins. Prior to joining the Hopkins faculty, Hung taught at the Indiana University-Bloomington.

Ho-fung Hung is  the author of the award-winning Protest with Chinese Characteristics (2011) and The China Boom: Why China Will not Rule the World (2016), both published by Columbia University Press. His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, Development and Change, Review of International Political Economy, Asian Survey, and elsewhere. His research publications have been translated into seven different languages, and are recognized by awards from five different sections of the American Sociological Association, Social Science History Association, and the World Society Foundation of Switzerland. His analyses of the Chinese political economy and Hong Kong politics have been featured or cited in The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg 海角社区, BBC 海角社区, Die Presse (Austria), The Guardian, Folha de S. Paulo (Brazil), The Straits Times (Singapore),  Xinhua Monthly (China), People鈥檚 Daily (China), among other publications.

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor鈥檚 Professor of History at UC Irvine, where he also holds courtesy affiliations in Law and Literary Journalism. Holder of a B.A. from UC Santa Cruz, a master鈥檚 from Harvard, and a doctorate from Berkeley, he has written, coauthored, edited or coedited more than ten books. His most recent books are: Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (2020) and China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, updated third edition coauthored with Maura Elizabeth Cunningham (Oxford, 2018). In addition to writing for academic journals, Wasserstrom has contributed to many general interest venues, e.g., the New York Times, the TLS, and the Wall Street Journal. He is an advising editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books and an academic editor of its associated China Channel. He served as a consultant for two prize-winning Long Bow Film Group documentary, was interviewed on camera for the film 鈥淛oshua; Teenager vs. Superpower,鈥� is an adviser to the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, and is a former member of the Board of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. In the spring of 2020, he was to be a Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Birkbeck College, University of London, but taking up that post has been delayed due to COVID-19

Prof. Huang鈥檚 research is devoted to understanding the impact of sociodemographic and economic transformations and government policies.  Her research focuses on three different but related areas: 1) housing, 2) migration and urbanization, and 3) health and wellbeing.   Her research has a regional focus on China, and recently the U.S.  She is the (co-)author/(co-)editor of ten books, including Chinese Cities in the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Housing Inequality in Chinese Cities (Routledge 2014), China鈥檚 Geography: Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic and Social Change (Roman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021).  She has also published many articles in some of the best journals in several fields, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), Annals of the Association of American Geographers, The China Quarterly, Urban Studies, Cities, Housing Studies, Housing Policy Debate, and Environmental and Planning A.  She has served both the profession and the community in many leadership positions, and she is the recipient of the Outstanding Service Award by the American Association of Geographers (AAG) China Geography Specialty Group (CGSG) in 2019, and 鈥淧resident鈥檚 Award for Exemplary Public Engagement鈥� by University at Albany in 2020.