Dr Shahid Yusuf, Economic Adviser, Development Economics Research Group, The World Bank, holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, and a BA in Economics from Cambridge University. Dr Yusuf is the team leader for the World Bank-Japan project on East Asia’s Future Economy. He was the Director of the World Development Report 1999/2000, Entering the 21st Century. Prior to that, he was Economic Adviser to the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist (1997-98), Lead Economist for the East Africa Department (1995-97) and Lead Economist for the China and Mongolia Department (1989-1993). Dr. Yusuf has also served the World Bank in several other capacities since he first joined the Young Professionals Program in 1974. An expert on development issues, with a special focus on East Asia. Dr Yusuf has written extensively on this area. His recent publications include Global Production Networking and Technological Change in East Asia and Global Change and East Asian Policy Initiatives, both co-edited with M Anjum Altaf and Kaoru Nabeshima (Oxford University Press 2004); Under New Ownership, co-authored with Kaoru Nabeshima and Dwight H. Perkins (Stanford University Press 2005); and China’s Development Challenges, co-authored with Kaoru Nabeshima (World Bank forthcoming 2006). He has also published widely in various academic journals.