Shahid Yusuf is currently Chief Economist of The Growth Dialogue at the George Washington University School of Business in Washington DC, Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University SAIS and a non-resident fellow of the Center for Global Development. He holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, and a BA in Economics from Cambridge University. Prior to joining the Growth Dialogue, Yusuf was on the staff of the World Bank. He was the Director of the World Development Report 1999/2000 on “Entering the 21st Century” and he managed the East Asia’s Prospects project from 2001- 2009. Yusuf has published widely in academic journals and he has authored or edited 28 books on industrial and urban development, innovation systems and tertiary education, which have been translated into a number of different languages.