Peter C.Y. Chow has been Professor of Economics at the City College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA, since 1986. He was previously also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a contractual consultant of the World Bank. He specialized in trade and development, with a focus on comparative developments in latecomers of industrialization in Asia-Pacific region. His recent research focused on the economic transformation and integration in the Indo-Pacific countries, technological rivalry, industrialization in the newly industrialized countries. He has published more than 60 articles in referee journals and book chapters in addition to editing and writing more than 10 books.