Education: BA (Hons), Geography, National University of Singapore 1992; PhD, Geography, University of Manchester, UK 1995

Career: Henry Wai-Chung Yeung has been Professor of Economic Geography at the National University of Singapore since July 2005. In February 2006, he led a team residency at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Centre in Italy. In the second half of 2006, he was appointed Visiting Researcher at the International Centre for the Study of East Asian Economies (ICSEAD) in Kitakyushu, Japan, University of Auckland Distinguished Visitor, and Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He also holds adjunct professorship and research positions at Henan University, China, and the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. His research interests include trans-national corporations in southeast Asia, developing country trans-nationals, foreign investment in ASEAN, Hong Kong firms in ASEAN, theories of international business and production, Chinese business networks, networks and organizational theories, economic geography, geography of international business, economic development in the Asia Pacific region, Asian firms in the global economy, economic globalization, and regionalization of Singaporean firms. Henry Wai-Chung Yeung has been co-editor of the Review of International Political Economy (see url below) since 2001 and is co-editor of Environment and Planning A, Economic Geography, Asia-Pacific Editor of Global Networks: Journal of Transnational Affairs, and Business Manager of the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. He also sits on the editorial boards of ten other international journals, including Asia Pacific Journal of Management, European Urban and Regional Studies, Journal of Economic Geography, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, and Eurasian Geography and Economics.

Publications include: monographs: Transnational Corporations and Business Networks: Hong Kong Firms in the ASEAN Region 1998, Entrepreneurship and the Internationalisation of Asian Firms: An Institutional Perspective 2002, Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era 2004; Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction (co-author) 2007; edited and co-edited books: Handbook of Research on Asian Business 2007, The Globalization of Business Firms from Emerging Economies (two volumes) 1999, Remaking the Global Economy: Economic-Geographical Perspectives 2003, Globalization of Chinese Business Firms 2000, Globalisation and the Asia-Pacific: Contested Territories 1999; more than 30 book chapters and 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals

Contact details: Address: Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, 1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570, Republic of Singapore; Tel: +65 6516-6810; Fax: +65 6777-3091; Email: henryyeung@nus.edu.sg ; Website: http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/geoywc/henry.htm ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09692290.asp/ .