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Event Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2023 - 6:00pmEvent Venue:  Lecture Theatre 2 - Faculty of LawAntonio Andreoni, Professor of Development Economics at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
 
The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Mona Campus recently partnered with the VM Group to host a Distinguished Lecture Series for the next 5 years.  This Campus-wide initiative establishes an institutional architecture for spotlighting The UWI Mona Campus' academic contributions under a single umbrella to the broader society. The Distinguished Lecture Series Launch was hosted on Friday, August 18, 2023.

The UWI Mona Campus, recognising the important role of public advocacy and thought leadership in advancing social progress, will be embarking on a series of conversations to bring the wealth of knowledge generated within the academy to the people it serves, through this series of Distinguished Lectures. The lectures will promote increased awareness and drive conversations on matters of national, regional, and global concern.

The inaugural lecture is expected to take place on September 13, 2023 with Antonio Andreoni, Professor of Development Economics at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London - a globally respected development economist delivering the keynote address. The topic for Professor Andreoni's lecture will be "Escaping the Middle-Income Technology Trap: drivers, dynamics and industrial policies."

'Antonio Andreoni is Professor of Development Economics at the Department of Economics of SOAS University of London. He is also Visiting Professor at the South African Research Chair in Industrial Development, University of Johannesburg, and Honorary Professor at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London. At SOAS, he is also College Convenor for Research and Knowledge Exchange for the Departments of Development Studies, Economics, Finance and Management and Chair of the School Knowledge Exchange Committee. Antonio has acted as an advisor to several multilateral organisations including UNIDO, UNCTAD, UNDP, ILO, UN ECA, World Bank and OECD, as well as national governments on industrial policy issues, including the European Commission, the UK, Finland, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Mauritius.

Antonio Andreoni's research aims at understanding how value is created, captured, and distributed within and across different sectoral value chains, industrial ecosystems, and institutional political economy contexts. His research blends ‘productionist’ and political economy perspectives to disentangle processes of development and structural transformation. His research focuses on how production, technological and organisational capabilities develop, as well as how industrial ecosystems innovate, diversify and restructure. He studies how large corporations and platforms shape markets and industries, and how financialisation, rents capture and corruption processes destroy the productive fabric of the society, ultimately closing the door to inclusive and sustainable development pathways. His research has also given particular emphasis to the developmental, entrepreneurial, and regulatory role of the state, including regional governments. He has conducted country-specific and comparative research on how the state can use industrial and competition policies to direct innovation and change, shape industries and markets, manage conflicts and transitions, towards inclusive and sustainable structural transformation.'

For more information on Professor Andreoni please visit https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/antonio-andreoni
 
For more information on the Distinguished Lectures please click here: https://www.mona.uwi.edu/news/inaugural-staging-uwi-mona-vm-group-distinguished-lecture-address-middle-income-technology
 
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