Arkebe Oqubay is a Minister and Senior Adviser to the Ethiopian Prime Minister and has been at the centre of policymaking for over twenty five years. He is a former Mayor of Addis Ababa and Minister of Works and Urban Development. He currently serves as board chair of several leading public organizations and international advisory boards. He is a research associate at the Centre of African Studies at SOAS University of London, UK. He is the author of Made in Africa: Industrial Policy in Ethiopia (OUP, 2015) and co-editor of ow Nations Learn (OUP, 2019) and The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy (OUP, 2019). He was recognized as one of the 100 most influential Africans of 2016 and a 'leading thinker on Africa's strategic development' by the New African for his work on industrial policies. His research focuses on structural transformation, catch-up, industrial policy, and policymaking, with a special emphasis on Africa. Justin Yifu Lin is Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics and Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, and Professor and Honorary Dean of the National School of Development at Peking University. He was the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at the World Bank, 2008-12. He had previously served for fifteen years as founding director and Professor in the China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University. He is a councillor of the State Council and a member of the Standing Committee, Chinese People's Political Consultation Conference. He has written more than 20 books, and is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics (OUP, 2015) and The Oxford Handbook of Structural Transformation (OUP, 2019). He is a corresponding fellow of the British Academy and a fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World. Arkebe Oqubay and Justin Yifu Lin are joint editors of China-Africa and an Economic Transformation (OUP, 2019).