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Edward S. Steinfeld
Associate Professor of Political Science.
Director, MIT-China Program
Professor Steinfeld, a China specialist, focuses on the political economy of reform in socialist and post-socialist systems. His book, Forging Reform in China (Cambridge University Press, 1998), explores the process of state enterprise restructuring in China and attempts to illuminate the institutional drivers of economic behavior in the Chinese system. He is currently involved in two research projects. The first, a book-length manuscript on financial reform in China, examines the relationship between ideas - namely cognitive conceptions of markets on the part of political actors - and economic outcomes in reforming systems. The second project, in conjunction with the World Bank and MIT Industrial Performance Center, examines the impact of globalization on Chinese industrial policy and structure.
Room E53-456
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: (617) 253-4130
Fax: (617) 258-7432
E-mail: edstein@mit.edu
Sean L.E. Gilbert
Managing Director
MIT-China Program
Manager
EECS International/MISTI
Sean Gilbert is responsible for developing projects and recruiting and preparing MT students for applied internships in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore. Key projects include the introduction of MIT OpenCourseWare and MIT iLabs content at ten universities in China and Taiwan through the MIT China Educational Technology Initiative (CETI). In 2007 the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science hired Sean to manage its applied international activities for EECS students: EECS International/MISTI.
Prior to arriving at MIT in 2000, Sean worked in Taipei for EcoTrends International Co., Ltd, importing environmental technologies and products for Taiwan construction sites (1997-2000); and for Honolulu-based Kaimana Pacific Corporation, supervising Taiwanese-owned Hawaii hotels and automotive and data processing joint ventures in Jinan, Shandong Province (1993-1997). Sean has also worked in New York as a reinsurance broker at Guy Carpenter & Company, placing East Asian and European facultative business (1984-1986).
Sean holds a Master of Arts in Chinese Studies from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies & Chinese from New York University.
Board member of the Greater China Business Council of New England
1 Amherst Street, Room E40-425
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: (617) 253-5068
Fax: (617) 258-7432
E-mail: seang@mit.edu
