Suresh Sharma has witnessed China's rise in manufacturing, markets, and innovation for the past 25 years, beginning with his work for the General Electric Co. setting up global facilities in production, design, engineering, R&D, and back-office processes. Subsequently, as an entrepreneur and board member of the Atlanta-based nonprofit policy research group, India China and America Institute, he has been actively engaged in business and policy-related forums. He is co-author of Industrializing Innovation - The Next Revolution (Springer, 2019), and serves as Innovation Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.