Wong, Joseph

Wong, Joseph is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in the department of political science at the University of Toronto. He is also the director of the Asian Institute at the Munk School. Wong's research focuses on public policy and political economy in East Asia. He is the author of Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia's Developmental States (forthcoming, Cornell University Press), Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea (Cornell University Press, 2004), and co-editor (with Edward Friedman) of Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems: Learning to Lose (Routledge, 2008). His articles have appeared in a broad range of journals including Politics and Society, Governance, Comparative Political Studies, Pacific Affairs, Studies in Comparative International Development, Journal of East Asian Studies, International Political Science Review, among others. Wong’s current research focuses on poverty and health in the global south. Prof. Wong received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001 and has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Seoul National University, and the Taiwan Institute for National Policy Research. He was also recently elected Senior Member of St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford.