Joseph Wong

Joseph Wong is Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, where he is also the Director of the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs. In addition to dozens of journal articles and contributions to scholarly volumes, Professor Wong has published three books, Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia’s Developmental State (Cornell University Press, 2011), Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics In Taiwan and South Korea (Cornell University Press, 2004), and, with Edward Friedman, Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems: Learning to Lose (Routledge, 2008). Wong has been a visiting researcher and fellow at Oxford, Harvard, Seoul National University, among others. He earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001, and his Hons. B.A. from McGill in 1995. Professor Wong’s current research focuses on innovation, poverty and health in developing world settings.