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Danny Quah is the Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, known for his work on international economic relations, economic growth, and income inequality, providing valuable insights for global organizations.
Danny Quah is the Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. His research interests lie in international economic relations, economic growth and development, and income inequality and social mobility.
Danny Quah is Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS. His research on inequality and income mobility. He also serves on the Forum's Global Future Council on Geopolitics.
Danny Quah contributed an article titled "Multilateralism Can Survive the Loss of Consensus" to the IMF's 'Finance and Development' publication.
Danny Quah has been featured in podcasts and content by INET, discussing topics such as "Why the Ferrari Economy Failed" and his research interests including income inequality.
Professor Danny Quah participated in a 'Kopi Time' discussion with DBS on the 'Fracturing World Order'.
Danny Quah has given multiple TEDx talks including "Liberal promises, liberal delusions - Emergence of new global powers" (TEDxNTU), "Economics, Democracy, & The New World Order" (TEDxKL), and "Global Tensions from a Rising East" (TEDxLSE).
Danny Quah published "A Thucydides Fallacy: The New Model of Power Relations for Southeast Asia, the US, and China" in 'THINK', The Head Foundation Digest.
Danny Quah co-authored "The Geopolitics of Populism" with Kishore Mahbubani for Project Syndicate.
Danny Quah co-edited "The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies" with Robin Mansell, Christine Avgerou, and Roger Silverstone.
Danny Quah contributed a chapter titled "One Third of the World’s Growth and Inequality" to the book "Growth and Inequality: Issues and Policy Implications", published by MIT Press.
Danny Quah was born in Penang, Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia), on July 26, 1958. He attended Penang Free School and Francis Light School before pursuing higher education in the United States. He earned his A.B. in Economics from Princeton University in 1980 and his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. His academic career began as an Assistant Professor of Economics at MIT, followed by a move to the London School of Economics (LSE) in 1991. At LSE, he became Professor of Economics and International Development and also served as Head of the Economics Department from 2006 to 2009. He was also the founding Director of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at LSE until 2016.
In August 2016, Quah joined the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP) at the National University of Singapore as the Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics. He was appointed Dean of the LKYSPP, serving from 2018 to 2025. His research focuses on international economic relations, economic growth and development, and income inequality and social mobility. Key areas of his work include analyzing the effects of different economic disturbances, studying economic growth and convergence across nations, and examining large-scale shifts in the global economy, such as the eastward movement of the world’s economic center of gravity, which he termed ‘The Great Shift East’.
Throughout his career, Quah has held various influential advisory and academic positions. He serves on the World Bank President’s Economic Advisory Panel, the World Bank Group Institute for Economic Development’s Advisory Board, and the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Geopolitics. He was a Council Member on Malaysia’s National Economic Advisory Council and a Consultant for the Bank of England, the World Bank, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Quah’s work on the ‘Valeriepieris circle’ (or Mong Khet Circle), a demographic concept illustrating population distribution, further highlights his broad contributions to understanding global patterns.
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