J.J. Woo is an Assistant Professor in the Public Policy & Global Affairs Programme of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he teaches politics and foreign policy. Prior to his current appointment, he has also served as Rajawali Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design.

Dr Woo received his PhD from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore and holds an MSC in International Political Economy from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University.

His forthcoming book, The Evolution of the Asian Development State: Hong Kong and Singapore, will be published by Routledge in August 2018.