Critical Minerals and the Rise of Green Industrial Policy: South Korea in Comparative Perspective


  • Date: May 23rd, Tuesday, 2023, 12:00 – 13:00
  • Location: SNUAC Asia Square (3rd Floor), SNUAC (Bldg. 101)

Presenter: Jewellord Nem Singh (International Institute of Social Studies)

Jewellord (Jojo) Nem Singh is the Principal Investigator of a five-year research programme Green Industrial Policy in the Age of Rare Metals: A Trans-regional Comparison of Growth Strategies in Rare Earths Mining (GRIP-ARM) funded by the European Research Council Starting Grant No. 950056 (2021-2026). He is an Assistant Professor (tenured) at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague and a Research Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS), The Netherlands. Nem Singh is the author of Business of the State: Why State Ownership Matters for Resource Governance (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming) and The Politics of Designing and Negotiating Industrial Policy in the 21st Century (Routledge, Forthcoming), as well as 40 scientific papers, book chapters, edited collections, and special issues within the field of political economy and development studies.