Chief Economist & Political Strategist, CrossASEAN Research

Prasenjit K. Basu

PK Basu has 34 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 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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Not Just Scotland: McGuinness, Brexit and the Dismantling of the United Kingdom

The Market Sentimentalist: Ready, Steady, Brexit

REAL-Economics.com

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<p><strong>- For a man who had never previously held electoral office, President Emmanuel Macron's remarkable electoral run this year reached a new height on Sunday with a spectacular landslide in the first round of the legislative election. If the trend holds in the second round, Macron's REM party could have 430 of the 577 seats in the new assembly. With a party of neophyte non-politicians personally beholden to him, President Macron is superbly positioned to enact every piece of legislation he desires</strong>…</p>

- For a man who had never previously held electoral office, President Emmanuel Macron's remarkable electoral run this year reached a new height on Sunday with a spectacular landslide in the first round of the legislative election. If the trend holds in the second round, Macron's REM party could have 430 of the 577 seats in the new assembly. With a party of neophyte non-politicians personally beholden to him, President Macron is superbly positioned to enact every piece of legislation he desires…

Macron's Magical Run Continues: Good for the Euro