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Join the National University of Singapore’s Dr. Henry Yeung, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geography, in a discussion surrounding his key empirical observations on the highly contested and politicized nature of semiconductor global production networks. Based on shifts in governance and power dynamics since the US-China Trade war and the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Yeung has written Interconnected Worlds (Stanford University Press, June 2022) and an upcoming chapter in Global Value Chain Development Report 2023. His presentation will assess the current nature of this capital-intensive manufacturing industry in the wake of complex technological regimes, production network ecosystems, and geopolitical imperatives. While some of these critical dynamics had been in play ahead of the 2020s, their intensity and significance became more apparent by the early 2020s, and continue to be relevant in macro-regional development post-pandemic. The discussion will conclude with future research agendas on technology, resilience and politics for the geographical studies of global production networks and global value chains.
About the Speaker
Professor Henry Yeung has been Distinguished Professor at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, since 2018, and Professor of Economic Geography since 2005. A leading academic expert in global production networks and the global economy, his research interests cover broadly theories and the geography of transnational corporations, East Asian firms, and developmental states. He is the first geographer based in Asia to receive both the 2018 American Association of Geographers Distinguished Scholarship Honors and the UK’s Royal Geographical Society Murchison Award 2017. His published works include textbooks, monographs and journal articles, and his most recent book, Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia. For two decades since 2001, Professor Yeung has been editor of two top journals in Geography – Economic Geography and Environment and Planning A, and his views on global production networks and East Asian development have been quoted in The Financial Times, The Economist, Forbes Asia, South China Morning Post, and others.
