Joseph Wong (political scientist)

Joseph Wong
Joseph Wong
Academic background
Education	McGill University (BA); University of Wisconsin-Madison (PhD)
Thesis	Democracy and welfare : health policy in Taiwan and South Korea (2001)
Academic work
Institutions	University of Toronto
Notable works	Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia’s Developmental State, (2011), and; Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics In Taiwan and South Korea (2018), both published by Cornell University Press, and 'From Democracy to Development: The Transformations of Modern Asia,' co-authored with Dan Slater and published (2022) with Princeton University Press.

Joseph Wong was the Canada Research Chair for health, democracy and development, is the Roz and Ralph Halbert Professor of Innovation at the Munk School of Global Affairs, and is currently the Vice President, International of the University of Toronto.

He is the author of Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia's Developmental State, and Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics In Taiwan and South Korea, both published by Cornell University Press, and From Democracy to Development: The Transformations of Modern Asia, co-authored with Dan Slater and published (2022) with Princeton University Press.

Joseph Wong

Academic background
Education	McGill University (BA) University of Wisconsin-Madison (PhD)
Thesis	Democracy and welfare : health policy in Taiwan and South Korea (2001)
Academic work
Institutions	University of Toronto
Notable works	Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia’s Developmental State, (2011), and Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics In Taiwan and South Korea (2018), both published by Cornell University Press, and 'From Democracy to Development: The Transformations of Modern Asia,' co-authored with Dan Slater and published (2022) with Princeton University Press.