Ha‐Joon Chang is the Director of the Centre of Development Studies and a Reader in the Political Economy of Development in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. He grew up in South Korea where he completed his undergraduate degree in Economics at Seoul National University before moving to England where he completed his MPhil and PhD in Economics at the University of Cambridge. His research covers a range of interests such as institutional economics, political economy, industrial and trade policy, globalization, technological progress, the East Asian economies and economic development in historical perspective.