Academic Appointments Jason Jackson The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania 2206 Steinberg-Dietrich Hall, 3620 Locust Walk Philadelphia, PA 19104-6370 jbrj@wharton.upenn.edu 215-746-3127 The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Visiting Lecturer and Senior Fellow, Management Department Post Doctoral Fellow, Lauder Institute, 2012-2014 Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D. Political Economy (Expected 2013) Harvard Kennedy School M.P.A. Public Administration University of London SOAS M.Sc. Development Economics Princeton University A.B. Economics Ph.D. Dissertation Institutions, Economic Interests and Policy Preferences: Insights from the Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment in India Committee: Alice Amsden (Chair), Frank Dobbin, Ben Ross Schneider, Phillip Thompson (co-chair) Fellowships and Awards Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC) Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) 2009 Harvard University Institute for Global Law and Policy Collaborative Research Grant 2012 MIT India Research Grant 2008-12 (supported by the National Science Foundation) MIT Energy Initiative Research Grant 2008; 2012 MIT Emerson Travel Fellowship 2010 MIT Center for International Studies Summer Research Grant 2009 MIT Lloyd and Nadine Rodwin Travel Fellowship 2008-9 MIT Presidential Fellow 2007-8 Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Merit Fellowship 2006-7 Harvard University Kennedy School Traub Summer Fellowship, 2007 Overseas Development Institute Fellow, London U.K. 2002-4 Publications Influence of South African Legislation on India s Mines and Minerals Bill: Promise and Perils, with Charles Maddox and Jonathan Burton-MacLeod. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLVII, No. 40, October 6, 2012. Promoting Caribbean Science and Technology Intensive Development through Brain Circulation: The Case of Biotechnology in Jamaica. Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, Vol. 17, No. 2, June 2011. The Potential Role of the Caribbean Diaspora in Science, Technology and Industrial Policy in World Sustainable Development Outlook 2010, pp. 123-131. 1
Gender, Development and the Global Economic Crisis, in Ashwini Deshpande and Keith Nurse (eds) The Global Economic Crisis and the Developing World, 2012, Routledge. In Search of the Diaspora Effect: Lessons from the Asian Brain Gain for Caribbean Brain Drain in Elizabeth Hope Thomas (ed) Freedom and Constraint in Caribbean Migration and Diaspora, 2009, Ian Randle Publishers. Gender and the Economic Partnership Agreement: An Analysis of the Potential Gender Effects of the CARIFORUM-EU EPA (with Judith Wedderburn) in Caribbean Development Report: Volume 2, 2009, United Nations Economic Commission on Latin American and the Caribbean. Conference Papers The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment: Constructing Business Interests and Policy Preferences in Post-war India and Brazil. Presented at the annual Business History Conference, Philadelphia, March 2012. The Promises and Perils of Horizontal Learning: Indian Experiments in the New Political Economy of Law and Development, with Charles Maddox and Jonathan A. Burton-MacLeod. Presented at the Workshop on States, Development and Global Governance, University of Wisconsin Law School, May 2011. Exploring the Firm-level Sources of Foreign Direct Investment Preferences, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington DC, September 2010. The Role of Caribbean Diaporas in Regional Science, Technology and Innovation, presented at the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) Annual Conference, Barbados, May 2010. A Comparative Cross-Regional Analysis of the Gendered Impact of the Economic Crisis through International Trade, Presented at the Fourth Annual Conference for Development and Change, Johannesburg, South Africa, April 2010. Who s Afraid of Foreign Capital? Competitive Collaboration during India s Economic Reforms, presented at the Conference on Globalization and Economic Nationalism in Asia, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 2009. The Rules are Rigged: the Indian Elite Project of Indigenous Industrial Development, presented at the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU- WIDER) Conference on The Role of Elites in Development, Helsinki, Finland, June 2009. In Search of the Diaspora Effect: Lessons from Taiwanese & Indian Brain Gain for Caribbean Brain Drain, presented at the Annual Conference for Development and Change, Neemrana, India, December, 2005. Paper was also presented at the University of the West Indies Conference on International Migration, Jamaica, March 2006. The Political Economy of Caribbean Integration: CSME and Regional Industrial Policy, presented at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) 6 th Annual Conference in celebration of the 50 th anniversary of the publication of Arthur Lewis Theory of Economic Growth, Jamaica, March 2005. 2
Caribbean Single Market & Economy (CSME) and the Risk of Economic Polarisation, presented at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) 5 th Annual Conference, Trinidad and Tobago, April 2004. Assessing the Distribution of Costs and Benefits Arising from the CSME, presented at the Caribbean Centre for Monetary Studies 35 th Annual Conference, St Kitts-Nevis, November 2003. Workshops and Invited Presentations Hagley Library and Museum, Center for the History of Business, Technology & Society, December 2012 Princeton University: After Subaltern Studies Early Career Workshop, April 2012 Yale University: Modern South Asia Workshop, April 2012 Harvard University: Workshop on History, Institutions and Politics, November 2011 Harvard University: Workshop on History, Culture and Society, November 2011 University of Pennsylvania Wharton-Lauder Faculty Development in International Business, June 2011 Harvard Law School, Institute for Global Law and Policy, June 2010-2011 Brown University: Workshop on Economic Ideas & Policy Change in the BRICs (Discussant), September 2010 University of the West Indies: Workshop on Trade, Innovation Policy and Small States, July 2010 University of Johannesburg: Seminar on Development Economics, April 2010. Academy of International Business (Southeast USA Chapter) Doctoral Consortium, 2010 George Washington University School of Business, Doctoral Institute on Institutions & Development, 2009 United Nations-ECLAC: Expert Group Meeting on EU-CARIFORUM Trade Agreement, February 2009 Frederich Ebert Stiftung: Gender, Trade and Economics, December 2008 Caribbean Development Bank: Knowledge Flows, Diaspora and Industrial Policy, November 2008 United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM): Gender, Trade and Macroeconomics, March 2008 Academic Teaching Experience The Wharton School, Management Department, University of Pennsylvania Lecturer, Comparative Management: International Dimensions of Business Strategy, Spring 2013 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graduate Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Latin American Studies, Spring 2012 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Research Design and Methods, First Year Doctoral Seminar, Fall 2009 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Quantitative Reasoning, Spring 2009 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Microeconomics, Fall 2008 Harvard University JF Kennedy School of Government Graduate Course Assistant, Asia in the World Economy, Spring 2007 Graduate Course Assistant, Technological Innovation and Development Policy, Fall 2006 University of the West Indies Adjunct Lecturer, International Trade, Labor and Gender, M.Sc. International Trade Policy 2008-10 Academic Service and Affiliations Panel Co-Organizer, Unpacking Foreign Direct Investment, American Political Science Association, 2010 Seminar Co-Organizer, Interdisciplinary Workshop on Institutions and Development, MIT, 2010-12 Seminar Co-Organizer, DUSP Doctoral Research Seminar Series, MIT, 2010-11 Member, American Political Science Association Member, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Member, Academy of Management Member, Association of International Business Member, Industry Studies Association 3
Professional Experience RESEARCH Research Assistant, MIT Industrial Performance Center, 2012-2013 CONSULTING Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana, 2011 Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, St Lucia, W.I. 2005; 2010-11 DevTech Inc./United States Agency for International Development, Washington D.C., USA 2010 Commonwealth Secretariat, London, United Kingdom 2010 United Nations Development Programme, Barbados, W.I. 2005-10 United Nations Development Fund for Women, Barbados, W.I. 2005-10 Caribbean Development Bank, Barbados, W.I. 2009 United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean 2008-9 Trinidad, W.I. Oxfam America, Private Sector Unit, Boston, MA, 2007-8 National Urban League, New York, NY, USA 2006 Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery, Barbados, W.I. 2005-6 FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT Caribbean Development Bank, Barbados, W.I. ODI Fellow & Research Economist 2002-2005 National Institute for Economic Policy, Johannesburg, South Africa Research Economist 2000-2001 Tiffany & Company, New York, NY International Business Analyst 1998-2000 References Frank Dobbin Professor of Sociology Harvard University Department of Sociology 530 William James Hall 33 Kirkland Street Cambridge, MA 02138 dobbin@fas.harvard.edu (617) 496-9091 Ben Ross Schneider Ford International Professor of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Political Science 30 Wadsworth Street, Room E53-407 Cambridge, MA 02139 brs@mit.edu (617) 253-7207 Jordan Siegel Associate Professor of Business Administration Strategic Management Unit Harvard Business School Morgan Hall 231 Boston, MA 02163 4
jsiegel@hbs.edu (617) 495-6303 J. Phillip Thompson Associate Professor of Urban Politics Department of Urban Studies and Planning 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 9-527 Cambridge, MA 02139 jt71@mit.edu (617) 452-2813 5