In December 2012, Professor Danny Quah (pictured), Kuwait Professor of Economics and International Development at LSE, was given the Hanban Confucius Institute's Individual Performance Excellence Award of the Year, at a ceremony in Beijing.
The award recognises Professor Quah’s work on ‘promoting greater understanding of China’s place in the world, by insightfully analysing and effectively communicating to general audiences worldwide the effects of shifts in the global economy and of the rise of the east.’
Professor Quah said: ‘I consider myself just a technical economist who has had to work really hard to explain to people what I do. LSE has generously allowed me the space to try to do both. This award is a great honour for me but, more, an acknowledgement of LSE’s premier place in communicating across all the social sciences.’