Dr Jostein Hauge is a political economist and Associate Professor in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, based at the Centre of Development Studies and the Department of Politics and International Studies. He is also a Fellow of Magdalene College. His research lies at the intersection of international political economy and development economics. He is the author of The Future of the Factory: How Megatrends are Changing Industrialization (Oxford University Press). He is currently working on a project examining China’s rise in the world economy.
Beyond academia, Jostein has worked with several international organisations, including the UN Economic Commission for Africa, the UN Industrial Development Organisation, and the World Economic Forum. His work has been covered by a variety of international media outlets, and he has been a guest on news channels and talk shows including Al Jazeera, The Majority Report, and Novara Media.
Prior to his current post, Jostein was an LSE Fellow in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and, before that, a Research Associate at the Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy at the University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD from the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, where he was supervised by Ha-Joon Chang, an MSc in Development Economics from SOAS University of London, and a BA in Economics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Jostein teaches development economics, international political economy, and the political economy of development in Africa, as well as skills for essay and dissertation writing. He supervises MPhil and PhD dissertation projects and is a Director of Studies at Magdalene College.
He writes Global Currents, a Substack newsletter on international political economy.
His email address is: jlh202@cam.ac.uk