Ha-Joon Chang has taught in the University of Cambridge’s economics department since 1990. He has authored or co-authored nine books, including Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism and Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective. His writings have been translated into 15 languages. Chang has also worked as a consultant for numerous international organizations, including the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. He is the recipient of the 2003 Myrdal Prize, awarded by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, and the 2005 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought, whose previous winners included John Kenneth Galbraith and the Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen.