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Xiaolan Fu appointed to Board of UNU-Merit

Professor Xiaolan Fu has been appointed to the Board of the UNU-Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT).

Professor Fu will serve for a four-year term starting in 2019.

UNU Merit is a research and training centre of the United Nations University. It explores the social, political and economic factors that drive technological innovation, with a particular focus on creation, diffusion and access to knowledge.

Board members are selected on a broad geographical basis with regard to major academic, scientific, economic, social and cultural trends in the world.

Xiaolan Fu is Professor of Technology and International Development at ODID and Director of the Technology and Management Centre of Development (TMCD).

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