Research Associates

HEAD

Tak-Wing Ngo

Tak-Wing Ngo is Head of the IIAS Centre for Regulation and Governance. He is Extraordinary Professor of Asian History at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Macau, China. He holds a PhD in politics from SOAS, University of London. He worked as an anti-corruption official and journalist before joining Leiden University where he taught there for 15 years. He is the Editor of the journal China Information, and the Editor of the book series Governance in Asia published by NIAS Press (Copenhagen).

Tak-Wing’s research interest focuses on state-market relations and the political economy of development. Currently he is undertaking comparative studies of rent seeking and institutional voids in Asia. His most recent publications include Rent Seeking in China (Routledge 2009, co-edited with Yongping Wu), Political Conflict and Development in East Asia and Latin America (Routledge 2006, co-edited with Richard Boyd and Benno Galjart), State Making in Asia (Routledge 2006, co-edited with Richard Boyd), and Asian States: Beyond the Developmental Perspective (RoutledgeCurzon 2005, co-edited with Richard Boyd).

Tak-Wing can be reached at: t.ngo@fhk.eur.nl

FELLOWS

Richard Boyd

Richard Boyd taught Japanese politics in the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London for nearly 20 years and thereafter in Leiden University for 14 year. He is currently Senior Visiting Professor in the School of Public Policy and Management in Tsinghua University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China.

Richard’s research interests centre on the state in Asia and the ways in which its organisation, relationship to the business class and to informal systems of governance shapes its role in the management of economic change. Currently he is researching similar issues in a broader comparative frame that embraces states outside of Asia. Publications in these areas include Political Conflict and Development in East Asia and Latin America (Routledge 2006, co-edited with Benno Galjart and Tak-Wing Ngo), State Making in Asia (co-edited with Tak-Wing Ngo), and Asian States: Beyond the Developmental Perspective (Routledge Curzon 2005, co-edited with Tak-Wing Ngo).

Richard can be reached at: richardaboyd@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

Marleen Dieleman

Marleen Dieleman is a senior research fellow at NUS Business School in Singapore where she teaches Corporate Strategy and does research on business groups in Southeast Asia. Further, she is Associate Director of the Centre for Governance, Institutions and Organizations. She holds a Ph.D. from Leiden University in The Netherlands. Prior to entering academia she was a management consultant and international project manager. At Leiden University she was the assistant dean of Leiden University School of Management.

Marleen’s research interests are in emerging market business groups and family business, in particular in Southeast Asia. Marleen’s current empirical work is aimed at doing in-depth case studies of family business groups in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, supported by a grant from NUS. She authored a book on the Salim Group of Indonesia entitled “The Rhythm of Strategy”, as well as several articles in books and academic journals. Marleen has five years of teaching experience, as well as experience in consulting and executive training, and is a regular speaker at conferences and academic seminars.

Marleen can be reached at: marleen@nus.edu.sg

Mark Greeven

Mark Greeven, is assistant professor at the Organizational and Personnel Science Department of the Rotterdam School of Management and Academic Coordinator of RSM's master programme 'Chinese Economy and Business'. He holds a PhD degree in management (Organization Theory and Innovation) from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Mark's research deals with innovation and entrepreneurship in China. Despite an institutional environment characterized by high levels of uncertainty, innovation thrives even in the technology-based sector. The research asks for explanations how innovative capabilities are developed in such an adverse institutional environment.

He has presented his work at major international and Chinese conferences and held seminars at famous Chinese universities, such as Zhejiang University, Fudan University and Tsinghua University. Furthermore, he was a visiting professor at the National Institute for Innovation Management of Zhejiang University from December 2008 to February 2009.

Mark can be reached at: mgreeven@rsm.nl

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Jörg Krempel

Jörg Krempel is a research associate at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt/Main, Germany, where he does research on security sector governance in Afghanistan and Sub-Sahara Africa. He holds an LL.M. (International Human Rights Law) from the University of the Western Cape in South Africa and an M.A. in Security and Conflict Studies from the Institute of Political Sciences in Paris, France. Prior to entering academia he was an international consultant for UNESCO’s Human Rights and Gender Equality Section in Paris and project manager for the Magna Carta Institute, a human rights research institute in Brussels, Belgium, as well as for the Khmer Institute of Democracy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He has numerous experiences as election observer for OSCE and EU missions.

Jörg’s research interests are security sector reform, state-building and good governance. Coming from a human-rights background, he is also interested in international human rights and humanitarian law. Jörg’s current empirical work is aimed at doing in-depth case studies of norm diffusion in the field of security sector governance in Afghanistan and in Sub-Sahara Africa. He co-authored a book on small arms and light weapons (Les armes légères: Syndrome d'un monde en crise) and authored a book on the neutrality of humanitarian assistance (Humanitarian Assistance in Modern Conflicts: Neutral Humanitarian Aid under Pressure), as well as several articles on armed conflicts and security sector reform.

Jörg can be be reached at: krempel@hsfk.de

Chun-Yi Lee

Chun-Yi Lee is a postdoctoral fellow of DFG Research Training Group 1613 "Risk and East Asia" at the University of Duisburg and Essen, Germany. Chun-Yi’s PhD study was funded by a scholarship awarded by the University of Nottingham. Her study addressed the changing pattern of interaction between Taiwanese businessmen and the Chinese government. This research mainly asserts that although central and local governments fulfill different roles in attracting Taiwanese businesses, their interests are complementary, and these complementary interests influenced the interaction of the Chinese government with Taiwanese businesses.

After Chun-Yi finished her PhD study, she worked as a writing-up grant scholar at the Modern East Asia Research Center (MEARC) at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Her book Taiwanese Businesses or Chinese Security Asset will be published by Routledge in 2011.

Building on her PhD, Chun-Yi’s current research investigates the triangular relationship between the Chinese state, foreign investors and the workforce. Using interviews, participant observation and archive studies, this research project aims to examine the transitional role of Chinese labour in the structure of the global political economy.

Chun-Yi Lee can be reached at: chun-yi.lee@uni-due.de

Benjamin van Rooij

Benjamin van Rooij is Professor of Law at Amsterdam Law School. Concurrently he is a Hauser Global Faculty Professor at New York University, School of Law. His expertise covers Chinese law, law enforcement, compliance, regulation, law and development and socio-legal theory.

Van Rooij studied Law and Chinese language and culture at Leiden University. He obtained his PhD with honours in 2006 in Leiden, with his dissertation Regulating Land and Pollution in China: Lawmaking, Compliance and Enforcement, Theory and Cases. Van Rooij worked at Leiden University's Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Development from 2000, where he was lecturer/researcher and - from 2006 onwards - university lecturer. Over the past years he has served as an adviser to the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment. He regularly publishes in international academic journals and has co-edited an edition of Law & Policy on regulatory enforcement in emerging economies set to appear in early 2010. Since 2000, Benjamin van Rooij has lectured in the Netherlands and abroad on topics related to Chinese Law, Environmental Law, Sociology of Law, Comparative Law, Legal Anthropology, and Law and Development.

Benjamin can be reached at: b.vanrooij@uva.nl

Yongping Wu

Yongping Wu is professor and associate dean at the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing. He received a Ph.D. from Leiden University, the Netherlands. He was an assistant professor at the Department of History at Peking University and a post-doctoral fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, before joining Tsinghua University. He is the editor of the China Public Administration Review.

Wu’s research interests include state and market relations in China, the political economy of China’s development, and cross-strait relations. His recent publications include Rent Seeking and China’s Industrial Development (co-edited with Tak-Wing Ngo, Beijing: Commercial Press, forthcoming), Rent Seeking in China (co-edited with Tak-Wing Ngo, Routledge, 2009), and A Political Explanation of Economic Growth: State Survival, Bureaucratic Politics, and Private Enterprise in the Making of Taiwan’s Economy, 1950-1985 (Harvard University, 2005).

Professor Wu can be reached at: wuyp@tsinghua.edu.cn

Cun-yi Yin

Cun-yi YIN is Professor at the School of Public Policy & Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.

His major research areas are regional development and policy as well as Cross-Strait economic relations.

Research projects he has conducted recently include:

1. Taiwanese Investment in the Mainland and Cross-Straits Relations, project commissioned by the National Foundation of Social Science, 2004.

2. A Study on the Mechanism of Regional Cooperation and Coordination, project commissioned by State Development and Reform Commission, People's Republic of China, 2007

3. A Study on the Economic Development and the Interaction between Taiwan and Kunshan during the Eleventh Five-year Plan Period, project commissioned by Kunshan Government.

4. Central-provincial Relations in China: A Perspective of Rent Theory, Leiden University and Tsinghua University, 2008-2010.

Professor Yin can be reached at: cunyiy@tsinghua.edu.cn