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Professor Danny Quah

Danny-Quah-2014 Danny Quah is Director of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, within the Institute of Global Affairs and Professor of Economics and International Development; Senior Fellow of LSE IDEAS, Chair of the LSE-PKU Summer School Board and Academic Director of LSE’s Executive Summer School. Quah served on Malaysia’s National Economic Advisory Council 2009-2011; he was the first Head of Department for Economics at LSE 2006-2009.

Quah holds degrees from Princeton and Harvard, and was Assistant Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining LSE. In 2010 he was Visiting Professor at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University; and in 2011 at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University. Since 2010, Quah has been Tan Chin Tuan Visiting Professor in the Economics Department at the National University of Singapore.

In December 2012 in Beijing, Quah was given Hanban’s Confucius Institute Individual Performance Excellence Award for 'promoting greater understanding on China’s place in the world, by insightfully analyzing and effectively communicating to general audiences worldwide the effects of shifts in the global economy and of the rise of the east'.

In August 2014, Quah gave a TEDx talk on 'Economics, Democracy, and the New World Order'; in March 2012, one on 'Global Tensions from a Rising East'. In October 2011, he gave the Confucius Institute for Business London Annual Public Lecture '627 Million Chinese Lifted Out of Poverty - Where Did It All Go Wrong?' and, at Peking University, the lecture 'China and the Global Public Good' for the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy. In June 2011, he delivered the inaugural LSE Big Questions Lecture 'East beats West?'. In April 2011, Quah gave the Eighth SER Distinguished Public Lecture on 'The Shifting Global Balance of Power' in Singapore; in January 2011, he delivered a lecture on the tensions of international power restructuring in a shifting global economy, as part of the Ralph Miliband Series at LSE on the Restructuring of World Power.

Prof Quah’s research is now on the global economy, economic growth and development, income inequality, and international economic relations. He is investigating in particular the eastwards drift of global economic activity, and the implications of such ongoing shift: he tries to make large things visible to the naked eye. He has also worked in time series econometrics, inflation, and business cycles. Some of Quah’s writings have been translated into 18 languages.

At the LSE, he used to lecture in the largest course (Introductory Economics) taught in the School. Quah now teaches macroeconomics and econometrics in LSE’s MSc programme, and Introductory Macroeconomics as well as Economics and Public Policy for LSE’s BSc programme. He lectures on The Global Financial Crisis for LSE100, and on The Global Economy for the LSE-PKU Summer School in Beijing and for LSE’s MSc in International Strategy and Diplomacy.

Prof Quah blogs at www.dannyquah.com/writings/en/

Selected Publications

Quah, Danny (2015) Ordering the World: Truth to Power (incomplete book manuscript)

Quah, Danny (2015) The Weakened Global Economy. Global Policy (06 March).

Quah, Danny (2015) The Simple Arithmetic of China’s Growth Slowdown. Brookings Future Development. Washington DC (18 February).

Quah, Danny (2014) Convergence Determines Governance - Within and Without. In: Dervis, Kemal and Kharas, Homi (eds.) Growth, Convergence, and Income Distribution. Washington DC: Brookings, pp. 179–184.

Quah, Danny (2014) Chinese Lessons: Singapore’s Epic Regression to the Mean. World Bank Future Development (10 November).

Quah, Danny (2014) Look to Asia For the Rebirth of Democracy. World Economic Forum (August 18).

Quah, Danny (2014) It Is Not Easy Being Leader of the World. Global Policy (July 30).

Quah, Danny (2014) How We Choose Our Political Leaders Tells the World a Lot About Us. Democratic Audit (July 23).

Quah, Danny (2013) China’s Journey to the West. Global Policy, February.

Public Engagements

Debate, ‘This House Believes China is the Dominant Force of the 21st Century’, The Durham Union Society, Durham, 6 November 2015.

Panel dicussion, ‘Will the 21st Century be Asian?’, LSE IDEAS – LSE SEAC Public Event, LSE, London, 2 November 2015.

Interview, CCTV 6-episode documentary series on ‘One Belt One Road’, 23 October 2015.

In Conversation, ‘Hong Kong's Past, Present and Future - Personal Perspectives’, LSE Asia Forum in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 17 October 2015.

Presentation, ‘UK-ASEAN Dialogue’ Asia House, London, 13 October 2015.

Presentation, ‘China's G20 Presidency’, Chatham House, London, 14 September 2015.

Panel discussion, ‘Opportunities and Challenges for ASEAN’, Opening Ceremony for Yale-NUS Model ASEAN Conference, NUS, 28 August 2015.

Summer School Public Lecture, ‘China's Global Engagement: Domestic Reforms and International Challenges’ 暑期学校公开讲座|国际舞台上的中国：国内改革与国际挑战, The LSE-PKU Roundtable Discussion, 12 August 2015.

Panel discussion, ‘The US, China, and the Global Macroeconomic Environment’, Chatham House Breakfast, Chatham House, London, 17 July 2015.

Interview, ‘China-led AIIB takes shape', BBC World News Impact, 29 June 2015. (if behind firewall)

Interview, ‘Beijing's proposal for Electoral Reform - Hong Kong's Legislative Council decides', BBC World News Impact, 17 June 2015. (if behind firewall)

Faculty forum, ‘American Decline: Fact, Fiction, or None of the Above’, LSE North America Forum, NYC, 15 May 2015.

Interview, ‘American Decline: Global Power in the 21st Century', 13 May 2015.

Presentation, ‘China's Economy in the Next Decade: An International Perspective’, Atlas Capital Group and LSE joint presentation, Beijing, 29 April 2015.

Seminar, ‘Economics in a Disorderly World Order’, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore, 28 April 2015.

Presentation, ‘China's Economy and ASEAN’, Singapore Civil Service College - Overseas Study Visit Programme, Singapore, 2 April 2015.

Interview, ‘AIIB’, Morning Wave in Busan, FM 90.5, Busan English Broadcasting, Busan, Republic of Korea, 30 March 2015.

Panel discussion, ‘Will the ASEAN Economic Community Work?’, Warwick ASEAN Conference, Birmingham, UK, 22 February 2015.

Panel discussion, ‘Building A Brand New Perspective’ in Malaysia's Role in ASEAN Integration, Projek Amanat Negara, UK and Eire Council of Malaysian Students, University of Birmingham, UK, 31 January 2015.

Other

Quah, Danny. 2015. 李光耀提供了西方治理的替代模式 (Lee Kuan Yew provided an alternative to Western models of governance), FT Chinese (23 March).

Quah, Danny. 2015. Lee Kuan Yew - An Appreciation. He Broke the Model, The Malay Mail - What You Think (30 March).

Quah, Danny. 2015. Going Rogue: Malaysia and the 1MDB Scandal, The Diplomat (05 August).

Quah, Danny. 2015. 国际关系学应引入经济学“看不见的手 (The Invisible Hand in Economics and International Relations), Guancha Syndicate (07 August).

Quah, Danny. 2015. 美国世纪”结束后怎样？(What Happens After the American Century?), Guancha Syndicate (11 August).

Quah, Danny. 2015. How China’s Rise Is Revealing the Cracks in US Claims to Legitimacy as Global Leader, South China Morning Post (19 August).

Quah, Danny. 2015. A Realistically Dangerous Southeast Asian Neighborhood, The Edge (17 October).

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