Professor Danny Quah

Professor Danny Quah is a Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS and Professor of Economics| at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

From 2006-2009 he served as Head of the Department of Economics at LSE. Professor Quah holds degrees from Princeton and Harvard, and was Assistant Professor Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the LSE. Professor Quah has consulted for, among others, the World Bank, the Bank of England, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He lectures frequently in the Gulf region, Southeast Asia, and China, and is also Tan Chin Tuan Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore. Professor Quah served on Malaysia's National Economic Advisory Council (2009-11) and is a Member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Economic Imbalances.

News

• Mick Cox and Danny Quah: A new world economic order?
  Professor Michael Cox guest-blogs for Danny Quah.
• Is UK academic social science following a work model others are already discarding? « DannyQuah
  Academic economics has disengaged from its long-standing public mission: addressing the questions important to society.
• Malaysia’s Position as the Global Economy Moves East
  IDEAS Senior Fellow Professor Danny Quah analyses how the shifting global economy is impacting South East Asia, and Malaysia in particular.
• The shifting global balance of power - China.org.cn
  IDEAS Senior Fellow Professor Danny Quah argues that as the economic centre of gravity shifts East, the question should not be what is good for the West, but what is good for the world as a whole.
• World's centre of economic gravity shifts east
  IDEAS Senior Fellow Professor Danny Quah explains how the world's economic centre of gravity has shifted 3000 miles east over the last 30 years, and will continue to do so.
• Power Shift: Myth and Reality
  Two great tectonic plates are on the move – China and the US – and the rest of the world is struggling to adjust to new realities and new relationships. The Autumn 2010 issue of LSE Research brings together four of the most eminent thinkers on the subject, all affiliated with LSE IDEAS: co-directors Arne Westad and Michael Cox; Senior Fellow Danny Quah, and the current holder of the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs Professor Niall Ferguson.
• Malaysia's New Economic Model: Making choices
  IDEAS Senior Fellow Danny Quah blogs about his experience serving on Malaysia's National Economic Advisory Council. In June 2009, Malaysia's Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak asked if I would serve on his council of economic advisors, the National Economic Advisory Council (NEAC). This Council was to come up with a New Economic Model for the country. It would not be a group that got together every month to finetune the economy. This Council was not to sift through the entrails of inventory reports, and propose economic policies to lean against the wind.
• Rising Asia in the World Crisis