John Mathews was appointed Professor Emeritus by Macquarie University in 2019, after serving for two decades as Professor of Strategic Management at Macquarie’s Graduate School of Management (now incorporated in the Macquarie Business School). He was concurrently Professor of Competitive Dynamics and Global Strategy at LUISS Guido Carli university, Rome (2009 – 2012). He was winner of the prestigious Schumpeter Prize in 2018 (co-winner with Prof Michael Best). Awards for ‘Best paper’ were made by the Review of Evolutionary Political Economy in 2022/23 (for the paper ‘Gone with the wind: How state power and industrial policy in the offshore wind power sector are blowing away the obstacles to East Asias’s green energy transition’ , co-authored with Elizabeth Thurbon, Sung-Young Kim and Hao Tan); and by Asia-Pacific Journal of Management 2006, for the paper ‘Dragon multinationals: New players in 21^st century globalisation’. For the last decade of his teaching and research at MGSM Professor Mathews turned his attention to the greening of global industry and insights available from strategic management. This has resulted in five books so far: Greening of Capitalism: How Asia is Driving the Next Great Transformation (Stanford University Press 2014); China’s Renewable Energy Revolution (Palgrave Pivot 2015); Global Green Shift: When CERES Meets GAIA (Anthem Press 2017); Developmental Environmentalism: State Ambition and Creative Destruction in East Asia’s Green Energy Transition (Oxford University Press 2023) (with Thurbon, Kim and Tan); and A Solar Hydrogen Economy (Anthem Press 2023). This process has culminated in Professor Mathews being appointed co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on Greening of Economic Development (with Professor Arkebe Oqubay, SOAS), to be published in 2024/25.