Xiaolan Fu (傅晓岚) is the Founding Director of the Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD), Professor of Technology and International Development and Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include innovation, technology and industrialisation; trade, foreign direct investment and economic development; digital inclusive business model; emerging Asian economies; innovation in the low-income countries. She is appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to the Governing Council of the Technology Bank for the Least Developed Counties and to the Ten-Member High Level Advisory Group of the UN Technology Facilitation Mechanism.
She has published extensively in leading international journals. Her recent books include Innovation Under the Radar (forthcoming), China’s Path to Innovation, China’s Role in Global Economic Recovery, and The Rise of Technological Power in the South. She is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, and serves on the Editorial Boards of Industrial and Corporate Change, International Journal of Technology Management, and four other international journals.
Prof Fu has received the EFMD Gate2Growth 2005 ‘European Best Paper’ Award, 2012 Emerald Outstanding paper Award, 2017 EURAM Annual Conference Best Paper Award, 2017 JCEBS Best Paper Award, 2018 International Business Review Best Journal Paper Award. She received large research grants from prestigious funding bodies including the European Commission, ESRC, EPSRC, British Academy, and the Cairncross Foundation.
She has advised UNDESA, UNCTAD, UNIDO, the World Bank, OECD, European Commission, ILO, the Commonwealth Secretariat, UKTI and the Chinese government. Prof Fu serves on the Advisory Expert Group of the OECD Global Investment Forum and the DFID/ESRC Economic Growth Directorate (DEGP), and is President of the Chinese Economic Association (Europe) and CEA (UK) in 2010-11. She is also a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge and University of Tsinghua, and a Visiting Professor at Fudan University.
Prof Fu came to Oxford from Cambridge University, where she was a Senior Research Fellow. Before coming to the UK, she had five years’ work experience in the business sector in China before embarking on her academic career.
As a leading China expert, she has participated in various interviews and panel discussions in the mainstream media, including BBC Newsnight, BBC News, BBC World News, BBC Radio 2, CCTV, CGTN, Sky News, TRTWorld, Arise News, People’s Daily, China Daily and China Radio International.
傅晓岚教授是牛津大学社会科学领域首位大陆华人终身教授，牛津大学技术管理发展中心创始主任，国际发展系教授，技术和国际发展研究专家,联合国技术促进机制10人高级顾问小组成员, 联合国技术银行理事会成员。她也是剑桥大学和中国社会科学院高级客座研究员，复旦大学客座教授。
傅晓岚教授的研究领域包括创新、技术与发展、贸易、对外直接投资和中国经济发展，新兴经济体，美国与欧洲的创新和生产率。她出版的著作包括：由顶级学术出版社之一的剑桥大学出版社出版的《雷达之下的创新》、《中国的创新之路》，《世界经济复苏与中国作用》，《新兴经济体技术能力的崛起》和《出口、外国直接投资和中国经济发展》，并正领衔编辑出版由牛津大学出版社出版的经典丛书《牛津手册之：中国创新》卷。
她是欧洲管理学会2017年会“最佳论文奖”，欧盟委员会Gate2Growth 2005年度“欧洲最佳论文奖”, JCEBS杂志2017年度最佳论文奖和Emerald2012年度杰出论文奖获得者。在一流国际期刊发表大量论文。同时，还担任JCEBS《中国经济与商务研究》期刊主编，任ICC《产业和公司变化》,IJTM《国际技术管理》及其他四本国际期刊的编委。
傅晓岚教授作为项目负责人和共同负责人承担英国国家经济和社会研究委员会(ESRC)、英国工程和自然科学研究委员会 (EPSRC)、欧盟第七框架计划基金(EC FP7) 和英国科学院等多项课题。她最近的课题包括数字商业模式和包容发展，跨国公司和全球发展，低收入国家的创新等等。傅晓岚教授曾担任联合国经济社会事务部(UNDESA)，联合国贸易和发展会议（UNCTAD）、联合国工业发展组织（UNIDO）、国际劳工组织（ILO）、欧盟委员会（EC）的顾问。傅晓岚教授还是经合组织（OECD ) 全球投资论坛、英国经济与社会科学研究理事会(ESRC)和英国国际发展部（DFID）联合专家组成员，中英政府间第一部“中英创新合作战略”英方工作组成员，全欧和全英中国经济学协会2010-2011主席。
傅晓岚教授加盟牛津大学之前，任剑桥大学高级研究员，且在中国有8年的学术和商务部门工作经历。作为知名中国问题专家，她经常应邀参加主流媒体的访谈和讨论，包括多次受邀BBC旗舰节目，BBC全球新闻频道及天空新闻，解读中国问题，也经常在中央电视台，中国国际电视台，人民日报，中国日报，和中东和非洲电视台（TRTWorld, Arise News）等媒体接受采访。2014年受邀在联合国大会就发展中国家的技术进步发表演讲。