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

No Certainty of Nuclear Peace on the Korean Peninsula

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Moon Jae-in's gamble at the start of 2018 in inviting a North Korean delegation to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics has now paid off handsomely. On 12th June, the US and North Korea will hold their first-ever summit meeting (in Singapore), and US President Donald Trump has confirmed that the summit will be the start of a process that will result in the eventual de-nuclearization of the Korean peninsula. When Gen. Kim Yong Chol, vice chairman of the Korean Workers' Party (the equivalent of Vice…

Moon Jae-in's gamble at the start of 2018 in inviting a North Korean delegation to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics has now paid off handsomely. On 12th June, the US and North Korea will hold their first-ever summit meeting (in Singapore), and US President Donald Trump has confirmed that the summit will be the start of a process that will result in the eventual de-nuclearization of the Korean peninsula. When Gen. Kim Yong Chol, vice chairman of the Korean Workers' Party (the equivalent of Vice…

Moon Jae-In's Triumph Is Complete: US-DPRK Begin a Negotiation "Process"; the Korea Discount Is Dead