Prof. K J Joseph

Prof. K. J. Joseph is Ministry of Commerce Chair Professor at Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Trivandrum, India. He is a Gold Medalist of the Calicut University for MA Economics. He earned M Phil and PhD Degrees from Jawaharlal Nehru University and undertook post-doctoral research at Yale University (Economic Growth Center) as a Ford Foundation Fellow. Earlier positions that he held include Expert in Innovation Studies, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, Visiting Senior Fellow at RIS, New Delhi, under the Ministry of External Affairs; Professor (on secondment from CDS) at Jawaharlal Nehru University (CSSP) and IT Policy Consultant of UNESCAP for Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand and the Yunnan Province of China.  He has also been a consultant to UNCTAD. His areas of expertise include, innovation and development with focus on information technology, industry studies, especially electronics; FDI, trade, globalization and WTO, regional development with focus on Kerala economy and plantation agriculture.

Apart from over 80 research papers and a number of policy-oriented reports, he has co-edited six books published by five leading international publishers.
He is the President Globelics and the Editor-in-Chief of Innovation and Development published by Taylor and Francis. He also serves as the Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and development, Inter-science Publishers; International journal of Institutions and Economics; African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, Routledge (AJSTID) and Millennial Asia, Sage Publications.

He has been a Member of the Committee of Direction and Governing Body of CDS, Steering Committee of India-EU Cooperation in S&T, Review Committee of HSRC South Africa, Indo-Japan Committee of Social Sciences and Humanities, and different expert committees appointed by the Government of India and Government of Kerala; the latest being the Co-Chairman of 13th Five Year Plan Working Group on Micro, Small and Traditional industries, Kerala State Planning Board. He has delivered invited lectures, keynote addresses and presented papers in over 150 seminars/conferences held in more than 30 countries.