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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<p><strong>President Donald Trump surpassed all the appalling lows of his foreign policy with one of the most devastating European tours an American president has ever undertaken. At Helsinki, he drew a moral equivalence between the findings of 17 US intelligence agencies and the word of Vladimir Putin, declining several opportunities to criticize (let alone reprimand) Russia for its actions during the 2016 US election, its annexation of Crimea, invasion of eastern Ukraine and downing (4 years ago to the</strong>…</p>

President Donald Trump surpassed all the appalling lows of his foreign policy with one of the most devastating European tours an American president has ever undertaken. At Helsinki, he drew a moral equivalence between the findings of 17 US intelligence agencies and the word of Vladimir Putin, declining several opportunities to criticize (let alone reprimand) Russia for its actions during the 2016 US election, its annexation of Crimea, invasion of eastern Ukraine and downing (4 years ago to the…

Putin's Triumph Is Complete as Trump Kowtows in Helsinki