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.

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<p><strong>Angela Merkel swept to another strong plurality in the Bundestag, albeit with a smaller share of votes</strong> (32.9%) and seats (217 out of 631 according to the latest exit polls) than she was expected to win just a fortnight ago (albeit down only slightly from her peak 34.1% vote share in 2013). Merkel is certain to remain Chancellor of Germany for a fourth consecutive term, which will make her the strongest and longest-lasting leader of Germany since Otto von Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor who united…</p>

Angela Merkel swept to another strong plurality in the Bundestag, albeit with a smaller share of votes (32.9%) and seats (217 out of 631 according to the latest exit polls) than she was expected to win just a fortnight ago (albeit down only slightly from her peak 34.1% vote share in 2013). Merkel is certain to remain Chancellor of Germany for a fourth consecutive term, which will make her the strongest and longest-lasting leader of Germany since Otto von Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor who united…

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