Lorenza Monaco (Phd SOAS, London) is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London, a Senior Research Associate at SarchI Industrial Development, University of Johannesburg, and part of GERPISA. She works on the political economy of industrial development in emerging economies, with a special focus on the automotive industry.
Martin Schröder is Associate Professor at the College of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University, Japan, and Visiting Researcher at the Research Institute of Automobile and Parts Industries, Waseda University, Japan. His research interests are regional economic integration in ASEAN, the political economy of the automotive industry, and digitalisation in the automotive industry.