Jitendra Uttam

Jitendra Uttam teaches international political economy at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has received his PhD degree from Korea's Seoul National University on the comparative international political economy. His experience, both in academic and corporate sectors, has given methodological tools to understand politics of economics, primarily in the Asian region.

Exclusively focusing on Korean economic development, his first book, "The Political Economy of Korea: Transition, transformation and Turnaround" introduces a new perspective based on the 'Second State'.

His just published second book co-authored with David Hundt, "Varieties of Capitalism in Asia: Beyond the Developmental State", has produced a scale based on capitalism's social embeddedness, which can measure efficiency, dynamism and sustainability of capitalism in Asia and beyond.