13 Facts About Danny Quah

Danny Quah is Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

Danny Quah is best known for his research on estimation techniques for disentangling the effects of different disturbances on economies, for his studies on economic growth and convergence across nation states, and for his analyses of large-scale shifts in the global economy.

Danny Quah became the dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, beginning his term on 1 May 2018.

Danny Quah was born in Penang, in the Federation of Malaya which later became Malaysia, and attended the Penang Free School and Francis Light School before leaving for university studies in the United States.

Danny Quah worked as assistant professor of economics at MIT before joining the Economics Department at LSE in 1991.

Danny Quah was, through 2016, Professor of Economics and International Development, and founding Director of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at LSE.

Danny Quah joined the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS as Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics in August 2016.

Danny Quah had served previously as Council Member on Malaysia's National Economic Advisory Council and as Consultant for the Bank of England, the World Bank, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Danny Quah had worked as a visiting assistant professor of economics at Harvard University, a visiting Professor of Economics at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management and at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, and the Tan Chin Tuan Visiting Professor at NUS's Department of Economics.

Google Scholar Citations reports that Danny Quah's most-cited works include his 1989 paper on Vector Autoregressions with Olivier Blanchard and his papers on poverty traps in cross-country economic growth and the convergence of Twin Peaked income distributions.

Danny Quah calls The Great Shift East the move in the world's economic center of gravity out of the mid-Atlantic location where it had been for most of the 19th and 20th centuries, pulled by the rise of economies in the east.

Danny Quah has argued that research on economic development needs to be inextricably linked to scholarly work in International Relations.

Danny Quah's TED talks include "Global Tensions From a Rising East" and "Economics, Democracy, and the New World Order".