
Vidya Vasu-Devan
Vidya Vasu-Devan is Director of the Strategic Investment Fund at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Vidya Vasu-Devan is Director of the Strategic Investment Fund at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
From semiconductors to electric vehicles, governments are identifying the strategic industries of the future and intervening to support them – abandoning decades of neoliberal orthodoxy in the process. Are industrial policies the key to tackling twenty-first-century economic challenges or a recipe for market distortions and lower efficiency?