Jonathan London to speak on the political economy of learning in Vietnam at the Virtual IEDP Invited Lecture Series

Virtual IEDP Invited Lecture Series Event:

Outlier Vietnam and the Problem of Embeddedness: Contributions to the Political Economy of Learning

Dr. Jonathan London

Associate Professor of Global Political Economy
Leiden Institute of Area Studies, The Netherlands

March 26, 2021
9:30-11:00am EST
Join Us on Zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96767196714

Meeting ID: 967 6719 6714

Passcode: 734

Dr. Jonathan D. London is Associate Professor of Global Political Economy – Asia at the Leiden Institute of Area Studies. He has previously held positions at the City University of Hong Kong and Nanyang Technological University. Dr. London is a leading scholar of contemporary Vietnam. Dr. London’s research interests span the fields of comparative political economy, development studies, and the political economy of welfare and inequality. Fluent in Vietnamese, London is author of the first and only Vietnamese language blog on Vietnamese politics written by a foreigner. He has served as an analyst for such international organizations as UNDP, UNICEF, and OXFAM. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin.