Summary
Danny Quah is the Dean and Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS, with a distinguished academic career spanning top institutions including LSE and visiting roles across Asia. He researches and writes on the shifting global economy, the rise of the East, economic growth, and income inequality, translating large-scale trends into accessible insights. Trained at Princeton (AB) and Harvard (PhD), he combines rigorous scholarship with institutional leadership—serving as dean, vice-dean, and director of major centres. Based in Singapore, he is known for making complex macroeconomic patterns visible to a wide audience and for preferring direct academic contact via his NUS email rather than LinkedIn.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Economics, PhD, Economics at Harvard University
AB, Economics, AB, Economics at Princeton University