Professional Affiliation

Principal Research Fellow, University of Sussex, UK

Expert Bio

Jewellord (Jojo) Nem Singh is a Principal Research Fellow in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK. He is the Principal Investigator of a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for his five-year research project Green Industrial Policy in the Age of Rare Metals: A Trans-regional Comparison of Growth Strategies in Rare Earths Mining (GRIP-ARM). Jojo held two highly prestigious research fellowships, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship Award at the Freie Universitëit Berlin (FUB) in 2017 and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)  at the University of Tokyo in 2016. His most recent publication includes Business of the State: Why State Ownership Matters for Resource Governance (2024, Oxford University Press) and Handbook on Resource Nationalism (Forthcoming, Edward Elgar Publishers). Apart from his academic work, he served as Consultant for various organizations, including UNDP Brussels, UNRISD in Geneva, and Publish What You Pay in London.

Expertise

Energy, environment, governance, international development

Major Publications

1. Developmental States beyond East Asia
2. Mining our way out of the Climate Change conundrum? The Power of a Social Justice Perspective
3. Environmental Governance amidst the Climate Crisis and Energy Transition in the 21st Century