Razeen Sally

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 Sallys 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)
• Trade Policy In The BRIICS: A Crisis Stocktake And Looking Ahead (ECIPE Policy Brief No. 03/2009)
• Regional Economic Integration in Asia: The Track Record and Prospects (ECIPE Occasional Paper No. 2/2010)
• Looking East: The European Union’s New Trade Negotiations in Asia (Jan Tumlir Policy Essay No. 03, 2007)
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Other books and papers

• Ordoliberalism and the social market: classical liberalism from Germany (A chapter from 'Classical Liberalism and International Economic Order' translated into Italian in 'Occasional Paper' of IBL)
• China's trade policy post WTO accession (Paper presented at Oxford conference on The Microeconomic Drivers of Growth in China)
• Fighting the Urge for Protectionism (Razeen Sally and Fredrik Erixon warns for rising protectionism in the Far Eastern Economic Review)
• 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)
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Speeches and presentations

• The Eurozone Crisis and Its Impact on Asia (ISEAS Annual Regional Outlook Forum, Singapore, January 2013)
• International Production Networks and Regional Integration (Global value chains and trade policy in Asia. Lecture at the Asian Development Bank, Manila, April 2013)
• The Emerging Global Economy and Asia: A Forward Look (IMA CEO Roundtable, Goa, December 2012)
• Asia and economic freedom: three policy challenges (Gamani Corea Foundation Lecture, Colombo, Sri Lanka, September 2012)
• Lessons from East Asia for South Asia (Eisenhower Fellowships South Asia Conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka, September 2012)
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Articles, opinion, and commentary

• A Look at the World Economy after Davos (Razeen Sally in Boao Review)
• Misplaced optimism in Davos consensus (Razeen Sally on this year's Davos consensus in the Straits Times)
• What can South Asia learn from East Asia? (Razeen Sally on South and East Asia relations in East Asia Forum)
• Reasons to be optimistic about the US – and more pessimistic about the EU and China (Razeen Sally opines in Weekend FT, Sri Lanka)
• BULLISH AMERICA, BEARISH EU, CHINA (Razeen Sally on the US, EU and China in the Straits Times)
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Media Coverage

• A Look at the World Economy after Davos (Razeen Sally in Boao Review (Chinese version))
• Analysis - Low growth saps support for globalisation as G20 meets (Razeen Sally quoted on creeping protectionism, supply chains and currency wars in Reuters)
• Slaving Europe in a big way (Razeen Sally in the Straits Times, Singapore.)
• Emerging Asian economies need structural reforms - Top economist (Razeen Sally comments on emerging Asian economies in Daily Mirror Sri Lanka)
• Hong Kong Middle Class Bitter as Tycoons Choose Leaders (Razeen Sally comments on Hong Kong's upcoming election in Bloomberg.)
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