Message from Asia Global Institute
Date: Monday, June 30, 2025 | 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Venue: HKU iCube, 4005-07, Two Exchange Square, Central
Speaker: Danny Quah, Dean and Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Enquiry: T: +852 3917 1297 | E: agimail@hku.hk
It is undisputed that the world order is undergoing profound change in character: still-evolving Great Power Rivalry; rising trade protectionism and a reshaped globalisation; a fraying multilateral, rules-based order, experiencing unilateral challenge and plurilateral response. In this seminar, Quah will address the profound changes underway in the character of world order. What are the fundamental shocks and propagation mechanisms driving these changes? Will geopolitical alignment and geoeconomic incentives hold the system together? If Great Powers once built the international system and Great Powers, again, are now pulling the thread on that system’s unravelling, how can smaller nations and economic enterprises best navigate the still-transmogrifying new world order?
About the speaker
Danny Quah is Dean and Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. His research interests include income inequality, economic growth, and international economic relations. Quah’s current research takes an economic approach to world order – with a focus on the global power shift, and the rise of the east, and alternative models of global power relations.
Quah is a Commissioner on the Spence-Stiglitz Commission on Global Economic Transformation; a Member of the Executive Committee of the International Economic Association; and a Senior Fellow at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economics Research. Quah was previously Assistant Professor of Economics at MIT, and later Professor of Economics and International Development, as well as Director of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at LSE. He also served as Head of the Economics Department at LSE, and was a Council Member on Malaysia’s National Economic Advisory Council. Quah studied at Princeton, Minnesota, and Harvard.
About AGI Public Policy Seminar Series
The series features leading academics and scholars from universities and think tanks around the world presenting current research on global public-policy issues and discussing their significance and implications for Asia and the world. All are welcome.
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