Joe Studwell

Joe worked as a journalist and author in East Asia for 25 years. He was the founding editor of the China Economic Quarterly and co-founder of the Asian research firm Dragonomics, now GaveKal Dragonomics. For the past six years he worked in Africa, supported by the Gates Foundation.

Joe is Senior Visiting Fellow at the UK’s Overseas Development Institute (ODI). He is also a board member at the UK’s top performing listed Asia investment firm, Pacific Horizon Investment Trust.

Joe is the author of four books about economic development in Asia and Africa. The Economist named How Asia Works a book of the year, and Bill Gates described it as one of his favourite works on economic development. His latest book, How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last Developmental Frontier, was long-listed for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year.