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Razeen Sally
razeen.sally@ecipe.org
Areas of expertise
- Developing countries in the world economy
- EU trade policy
- Free Trade Agreements
- History of economic ideas
- Trade policy in Asia (China, India, ASEAN)
- World Trade Organisation
Razeen Sally is co-Director of the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), a international economic policy think tank based in Brussels. He is presently on a leave of absence from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he has taught since 1993. He received his PhD from the LSE in 1992, and did post-doctoral research at INSEAD in France.
He is Senior Research Associate at the South African Institute of International Affairs in Johannesburg. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Institut D’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Hong Kong, and Director, Trade Policy, at the Commonwealth Business Council in London. He is on the Academic Advisory Council of the Institute of Economic Affairs in London, and on the Advisory Board of the Cato Centre for Trade Policy Studies in Washington DC.
Dr. Sally’s research focuses on trade policy in Asia, the WTO and preferential trade agreements. His new book on trade policy will be published in 2008. He has also written on the intellectual history of political economy, especially the theory of commercial policy. He lectures and consults for governments, business and international organisations, and comments regularly on international economic policy issues in the media.
ECIPE Publications
- Kazakhstan and the World Economy: An Assessment of Kazakhstan’s Trade Policy and Pending Accession to the WTO (ECIPE Jan Tumlir Essay No. 01/2008)
- Looking East: The European Union’s New Trade Negotiations in Asia (Jan Tumlir Policy Essay No. 03, 2007)
- Trade Policy in Asia (ECIPE Policy Briefs No. 01, 2007)
- FTAs and the Prospects for Regional Integration in Asia (ECIPE Working Paper No. 01, 2006)
Recent media coverage
- WTO Negotiators Demand New Concessions to Save Talks (Update2) (Razeen Sally on the Doha negotations in Bloomberg)
- WTO Negotiators Demand New Concessions to Save Talks (Update2) (Razeen Sally on Doha negotations in Bloomberg)
- Ein Plädoyer für den Freihandel (Review of Razeen Sallys book "Trade Policy, New Century: The WTO, FTAs and Asia Risinging" in NZZ: Dossier Sachbuch )
- Sarkozy anti-WTO remarks seen as contradictory (Razeen Sally quoted in Reuters)
- Bilateral trade pacts called stumbling block for wider liberalization (Razeen Sally quoted in the International Herald Tribune )
- Declaraciones de Sarkozy sobre OMC son contradictorias: expertos (Razeen Sally quoted in Invertia)
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Speeches and presentations
- Trade Policy, New Century, The WTO, FTAs and Asia Rising (Book presentation by Razeen Sally)
- The political economy of trade policy reform in the BRIICS (Presented at the Australian National University, February 2008)
- Global Europe as External Dimension (Presented at a seminar at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, November 2007)
- EU and the World Trading System (Lecture on the EU in the world trading system at the University of Latvia in Riga on October 22nd 2007.)
- Globalisation and India Shining (Presentation on India's economy and growth prospects in McLean, Virginia, USA, on 24th September 2007.)
- China in the WTO (Presentation on China in the WTO and its impact on domestic reforms held in Haikou, China, on November 17-18th 2007.)
- Looking East: EU-Asia Free Trade Agreements (Presentation at ECIPE conference "Stepping into Asia's Growing Markets", November 6, 2007 )
- FTAs in ASIA, Pan Beibu Gulf Economic Cooperation Forum (Presentation at Pan Beibu Gulf Economic Cooperation Forum in Beihai, Guanxi Province, China on 30th July)
- Top five risks to the global economy (Razeen Sally at a Goldman Sachs conference in June 2008)
Other publications
- The Political Economy of Trade Liberalisation: What Lessons for Reforms Today? Razeen Sally (Published by The South African Institute of International Affairs http://www.saiia.org.za)
- Thai trade policy: from non-discriminatory liberalisation to FTAs (Article in The World Economy)
- Free Trade Agreements and the prospects for regional integration in East Asia
- Trade and Aid: Countering New Millennium Protectionism
- Trade policy 2006: a tour d'horizon
- Chinese trade policies in wider Asian perspective
- Sri Lanka: The political economy of failure (Presented at the conference on Globalisation and Economic Success: Policy Options for Africa)
- The new Asian drama: globalisation and trade policy in Asia
- Europe in the world: Trade and globalisation
- Globalisation and the Political Economy of Trade Liberalisation in the BRIICS (An overview paper on the political economy of trade liberalisation in the BRIICS )