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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 Director of ECIPE, which he co-founded in 2006. He will also be Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore from January 2012. He was on the faculty of the London School of Economics for eighteen years, where he also received his PhD. He has held adjunct teaching, research and advisory positions at universities and think tanks in the USA, Europe, Africa and Asia. He is on the Global Agenda Council for Competitiveness of the World Economic Forum, and was awarded the Hayek Medal by the Hayek Society in Germany in 2011. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.
Razeen Sally’s research and teaching focuses on global trade policy and Asia in the world economy. He has written extensively on the WTO, FTAs, and on different aspects of trade policy in Asia. He has also written on the history of economic ideas, especially the theory of commercial policy. He has consulted for governments, international organisations and businesses in Europe and Asia, and comments regularly on international economic issues in the media.
ECIPE Publications
- Indian Trade Policy After the Crisis (ECIPE Occasional Paper No. 4/2011)
- The Crisis and the Global Economy: A Shifting World Order? (ECIPE Occasional Paper No. 3/2011)
- Chinese Trade Policy After (Almost) Ten Years in the WTO: A Post-Crisis Stocktake (ECIPE Occasional Paper No. 2/2011)
- Beyond Geopolitics - The Case for a Free Trade Accord between Europe and Taiwan (ECIPE Occasional Paper No. 03/2010)
- Trade, Globalisation and Emerging Protectionism Since the Crisis (ECIPE Working Paper No. 2/2010)
- Regional Economic Integration in Asia: The Track Record and Prospects (ECIPE Occasional Paper No. 2/2010)
- Trade Policy In The BRIICS: A Crisis Stocktake And Looking Ahead (ECIPE Policy Brief No. 03/2009)
- 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)
Other Books and Papers
- The Shift to the East and Implications for the West (Razeen Sally on Asia's post-crisis acceleration and what it means for the West in European View)
- Chinese trade policy after (almost) ten years in the WTO: a post-crisis stocktake (for the PAFTAD 34/CCER conference on China in the World Economy, Beijing, December 2010)
- Regional economic integration in Asia: the track record and prospects (Paper presented at the PAFTAD 33 conference, Taipei, October 2009)
- The Political Economy of Trade Reforms in Emerging Markets – Crisis or Opportunity? (Book released in 2009 edited by Razeen Sally, Peter Draper and Phil Alves )
- International trade and natural law: what lessons for trade policy today? (Paper prepared for a conference on Natural Law and Globalisation, Witherspoon Institute, Princeton University, May 2009.)
- Globalisation and Emerging Economies (Razeen Sally participates in an OECD book with a chapter on the political economy of trade reforms)
- Fighting the Urge for Protectionism (Razeen Sally and Fredrik Erixon warns for rising protectionism in the Far Eastern Economic Review)
- Agriculture-specific negotiations from an EU perspective (Paper for the conference on ‘Alternative Frameworks for Agricultural Trade Negotiations’, University of Adelaide, 11-12 December 2008 )
- China's trade policy post WTO accession (Paper presented at Oxford conference on The Microeconomic Drivers of Growth in China)
- New Frontiers in Free Trade: Globalization’s Future and Asia’s Rising Role (Book released in 2008 by Razeen Sally )
- Globalisation and the Political Economy of Trade Liberalisation in the BRIICS (An overview paper on the political economy of trade liberalisation in the BRIICS )
- Thai trade policy: from non-discriminatory liberalisation to FTAs (Article in The World Economy)
- 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)
- 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
Speeches and Presentations
- Liberty Outside the West (Video of a presentation held at the Adam Smith Institute in London.)
- Liberty Outside the West (Lecture for the Hayek Tage, Freiburg, June 10th 2011)
- Presentation on EU bilateral trade arrangements with strategic partners at the EU-China Trade Policy Seminar (DG Trade/MOFCOM, Beijing, May 2011)
- Presentation on trade policy and global supply chains at the EU-China Trade Policy Seminar (DG Trade/MOFCOM, Beijing, May 2011)
- China's Trade Policy (Presentation held at ECIPE Lunch Seminar on March 1, 2011)
- Chinese trade policy after (almost) ten years in the WTO: a post-crisis stocktake (for the PAFTAD 34/CCER conference on China in the world economy, Beijing, December 2010)
- Indian trade policy after the crisis (for the Institute of South Asian Studies annual conference, Singapore, November 2010)
- Speech on EU trade-policy priorities (European Commission conference on EU Trade Policy Towards Developing Countries, Brussels, 16 March 2010.)
- Emerging Protectionism (Presentation held at The Way Back conference in November 2009.)
- The politics and economics of Asian regional integration (Presented at the PAFTAD 33 conference, Taipei, 6th October 2009)
- Emerging Protectionism and the Global Economic Crisis (Presentation at the American Chamber of Commerce, Singapore, 4th August 2009)
- Trade Policy Reform in Emerging Markets (Book talk on the political economy of trade reforms in emerging markets" (ECIPE, June 2009))
- Trade Policy, New Century, The WTO, FTAs and Asia Rising (Book presentation by Razeen Sally)
- Global Europe as External Dimension (Presented at a seminar at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, November 2007)
- The End of Capitalism? Exploring the Global Financial Crisis (Razeen Sally gave a speech at CIS in Sydney. Video link. )
- EU-Asia trade relations and FTAs (Presentation at the European Policy Centre, Brussels, October 6th 2008. Presentation at the University of Gothenburg, October 9th 2008 )
- Chinese trade policy post-WTO accession and China-EU trade relations (Conference on Microeconomic Drivers of Growth in China, University of Oxford, 29/30th September 2008)
- 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)
- The political economy of trade policy reform in the BRIICS (Presented at the Australian National University, February 2008)
- 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 )
- 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.)
Articles, Opinion and Commentary
- Seehandel macht frei - der Aufstieg Asiens (Razeen Sally writes on trading entrepots and the rise of Asia, historically and today, in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung )
- An Open Letter to President Obama (Open letter by fifty economists and former ministers to President Obama on the Doha round)
- European twilight, Asian sunrise (Razeen Sally compares Europe with Asia in India's Business Standard)
- Handelspolitik im Griff der Interessen (Andreas Freytag and Razeen Sally on the trade and the world economy in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.)
- Insight Interview (Razeen Sally interviewed on India's TV programme Insight)
Media Coverage
- Geithner Gets Japan’s Backing on Iran Oil Sanctions After Snub From China (Razeen Sally comments on Japan's and China's oil imports from Iran in Bloomberg)
- SL will achieve 8 pc growth target - CB Governor (Razeen Sally quoted on Sri Lankan economic prospects in the Sunday Observer.)
- Sri Lanka should be prepared for slow global economy: economist (Razeen Sally on the global and Asian economic outlook in Lanka Business Online)
- Sri Lanka's brand image has to outshine larger countries: economist (Razeen Sally comments on the Sri Lankan economy in Lanka Business Online)
- Obama’s Asia Trade Deal Gains Momentum as Japan, Canada Sign On (Razeen Sally coments on Obama’s Asia Trade Deal in Bloomberg Businessweek)