Danny Quah

Danny Quah

Professor at London School of Economics

Danny Quah is a Professor of Economics and International Development at LSE, and Director of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, at LSE's Institute of Global Affairs. He works on the shifting global economy and the rise of the east. His current writing is on global hegemony and world leadership in global economic policy-making. 

At LSE, he is a Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS, Academic Director of the Executive Summer School, and Chair of the Board of the LSE-PKU Summer School. He is also a Tan Chin Tuan Visiting Professor in the Economics Department at the National University of Singapore. In May-June 2010, he was visiting professor of economics at Tsinghua University, Beijing; April 2011, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He served on Malaysia’s National Economic Advisory Council, 2009-2011.

His public lectures are available online, among them “East Beats West?”; “627mn Chinese”; “Global Tensions from a Rising East”; and “Economics, Democracy, and the New World Order”.