Prof. Xiaobo WU is currently serving as the dean of Faculty of Social Sciences, the director of National Institute for Innovation Management (NIIM), the director of the Zhejiang University—Cambridge University Joint Research Center for Global Manufacturing and Innovation Management and Ruihua Institute for Innovation Management. He also serves as Board member and the vice-president of the Central, East European and Middle Asian Network on Management Development Association (CEEMAN).

After obtaining his PhD degree in Management from Zhejiang University in 1992, Professor WU conducted his postdoctoral research at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand (1996). He had been a visiting scholar of the Institute for Manufacturing and the Judge Institute of Management Studies at Cambridge University, UK (1996-1997), and a Fulbright visiting scholar at Sloan School of Management at MIT, US (2000-2001).

Professor WU joined the Faculty of School of Management at Zhejiang University 1992. His primary research interests center around Managing Technological Innovation, Inclusive Innovation and entrepreneurship, Global Manufacturing and Network-based Competitive Strategy. He has published over 300 academic papers and over 30 books, and serves on the editorial boards of scholarly journals, including IEEE-Transaction on Engineering Management, Asian Journal of Technological Innovation, Journal of Engineering Management and etc.

His service to education communities includes Member of the Assessment Committee of the National Academic Degree Committee, State Council of China; the Supervisory Committee of Management Sciences and Engineering Management Education, the Ministry of Education of China; and the National MBA Education Steering Committee of China. He was also the Smiths Chair Professor of International Management at Leeds University, UK (2013-2016).

Professor WU has been actively involved in management consulting and was the advisor and board member of leading companies including Geely, Siemens China, Hikvision, Hangyang, Hengtong, XIZI UHC and etc. He is the Executive Vice President of International Council for Small Business (ICSB) China, and he had been elected the Senior Vice President of ICSB from 2011 to 2012. He also serves as the president of Zhejiang Provincial Technological Innovation Association and Hangzhou Enterprises Technological Innovation Association. 

吴晓波教授目前担任社会科学院院长、国家创新管理研究所(NIIM)所长、浙江大学-剑桥大学全球制造与创新管理联合研究中心和瑞华创新管理研究所所长。他还是中欧、东欧和中亚管理发展协会(CEEMAN)的董事会成员和副主席。

吴教授于1992年在浙江大学获得管理学博士学位后，于1996年在泰国亚洲理工学院进行博士后研究。他曾是英国剑桥大学制造研究所和贾奇管理研究所的访问学者(1996-1997年)，以及美国麻省理工学院斯隆管理学院的富布赖特访问学者(2000-2001年)。

吴教授于1992年加入浙江大学管理学院。他的主要研究兴趣围绕管理技术创新、包容性创新和企业家精神、全球制造和基于网络的竞争战略。他发表了300多篇学术论文，出版了30多本书籍，并担任学术期刊的编委，包括IEEE-Transaction on Engineering Management、Asian Journal of technology Innovation、Journal of Engineering Management等。

他服务于教育界，包括中国国务院国家学位委员会评审委员会成员；中国教育部管理科学与工程管理教育督导委员会；和全国MBA教育指导委员会。他也是英国利兹大学史密斯国际管理讲座教授(2013-2016)。

吴教授积极参与管理咨询工作，曾担任吉利、西门子中国、海康威视、航洋、恒通、等知名企业的顾问和董事会成员。他是国际小企业理事会(ICSB)中国区执行副主席，曾于2011年至2012年当选ICSB高级副总裁。他还担任浙江省技术创新协会和杭州市企业技术创新协会会长。