Jun Du
Professor of Economics
Jun Du is Professor of Economics at Aston Business School and Founding Director of the Centre for Business Prosperity. From August 2026, she will be Managing Director of The Productivity Institute. She is a leading expert on UK trade, internationalisation, and productivity, with research funded by the ESRC, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). Her work informs policy debates on post-Brexit trade, SME export performance, and industrial competitiveness.
Contact Details
| Email: | j.du@aston.ac.uk |
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| Telephone: | 0121 204 3340 |
Research Themes
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Business Growth
Biography
Jun Du is Professor of Economics at Aston Business School and Founding Director of the Centre for Business Prosperity. From August 2026, she will be Managing Director of The Productivity Institute. She is a leading expert on UK trade, internationalisation, and productivity, with research funded by the ESRC, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). Her work informs policy debates on post-Brexit trade, SME export performance, and industrial competitiveness.
She serves on the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) Global Britain Challenge Group, is a member of the BCC’s Economic Advisory Council, and is Vice Chair of the Trade and Investment Panel at the International Chamber of Commerce. She co-directs the Trade and Public Policy (TaPP) Network.
Her expertise keeps her working closely with industry and government to support evidence-based policymaking that strengthens the UK’s trade, productivity, and economic resilience — the areas where her central interests lie.
SMEs under uncertainty: What evidence tells us about policy shocks and firm performance
Published: 28 August 2025
SOTA Review No 66
Knowledge Spillovers, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Geography of High Growth Firms Redux
Published: 17 June 2025
ERC Research Paper No 116
Evaluation of the Scottish Government’s Inward Investment Support
Published: 13 July 2023
ERC Research report for the Scottish Government
Business Confidence, TCA Adaptation, and Export Performance
Published: 8 February 2023
ERC Insight paper
Fast-growth firms and their wider economic impact: UK evidence.
Published: 22 January 2019
ERC Policy Briefing
Fast-growth firms and their wider economic impact: UK evidence.
Published: 22 January 2019
ERC Research Paper No 73
Fast-growth firms in the UK: definition and policy implications.
Published: 4 December 2017
ERC Research Paper No 63
Fast-growth firms in the UK: definition and policy implications.
Published: 4 December 2017
ERC Policy Briefing
Decomposing UK aggregate labour productivity and growth: 1998-2013 using the ONS business structure database data.
Published: 12 July 2016
ERC Research Paper No. 48
