Chief Economist & Political Strategist, CrossASEAN Research

Prasenjit K. Basu

PK Basu has 35 years experience covering Asia's economies and markets (equities, fixed income and currencies), including 20 years covering the global economy. He was Chief Economist (SE Asia & India) at Credit Suisse First Boston for 5 years, and Chief Asia (x-Jpn) Economist at Daiwa Securities for a similar period. Among other roles, he was global head of research at Maybank Kim Eng, Malaysia equity research head and chief ASEAN economist at Macquarie, Chief Economist at ICICI Securities, ASEAN economist and Asia sector strategist at UBS and the first chief economist at Khazanah Nasional (where he was co-head of research, and led all agri-business initiatives). PK Basu started his career in the Asia Service of WEFA (Wharton Econometrics) in Philadelphia in 1990, rising to be Director of their Asia Service in June 1994. 
PK's book, "Asia Reborn: A continent rises from the ravages of Colonialism and War to a New Dynamism" won the Tata Literature First Book Award (non-fiction) for 2018. It is the first single chronicle of the modern economic and political history of the whole of Asia (from Iraq and Turkey to Korea and Japan, and everything in between), told from an Asian perspective.

Chief Economist & Political Strategist

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Like the 1920s and 1970s, the current decade increasingly looks like a transformative decade in British politics, with the pendulum set to swing back toward the left (as it swung to the right at the end of the 1970s, and as it had first swung left in the 1920s with the demise of the Liberals).The mainstreaming of Jeremy Corbyn has proceeded apace in the past two months: first he came within 2 percentage points of ousting the Tories in the general election, now the polls suggest he is a serious…

Like the 1920s and 1970s, the current decade increasingly looks like a transformative decade in British politics, with the pendulum set to swing back toward the left (as it swung to the right at the end of the 1970s, and as it had first swung left in the 1920s with the demise of the Liberals).The mainstreaming of Jeremy Corbyn has proceeded apace in the past two months: first he came within 2 percentage points of ousting the Tories in the general election, now the polls suggest he is a serious…

Theresa May as the Callaghan of This Decade Paves the Path to a Trotskyite Future for Britain