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

May (& A United Kingdom) On Thin Ice as Corbyn and Barnier Set Out Their Customs Union Stall

UK in Chaos: Brexit Deal Suffers a Crushing Defeat, but There Is No Consensus on the Way Forward

A Brexit Win: Commons (And May) Agree the Brady Amendment For "Alternative Arrangements" On NI

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

France Beating Britain in the Long Game: +ve for the EU in the Near-Term, Less so in the Long Haul

Not Just Scotland: McGuinness, Brexit and the Dismantling of the United Kingdom

Exit Poll Suggests a Hung Parliament, but Not yet the Worst Possible Outcome for the Market

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<p><strong>-The fiasco at the Conservative party conference last week leaves Theresa May fatally weakened, but retained in office as the lamest of ducks because the alternatives are worse. On a 1- and 2-year view, we would be solidly underweight Sterling, as the Brexit process heads inexorably toward a bad outcome for Britain -- given a weak government negotiating with an EU that is determined to ensure that Britain suffers sufficient negative consequences (on trade and immigration) to deter other nations</strong>…</p>

-The fiasco at the Conservative party conference last week leaves Theresa May fatally weakened, but retained in office as the lamest of ducks because the alternatives are worse. On a 1- and 2-year view, we would be solidly underweight Sterling, as the Brexit process heads inexorably toward a bad outcome for Britain -- given a weak government negotiating with an EU that is determined to ensure that Britain suffers sufficient negative consequences (on trade and immigration) to deter other nations…

Theresa May Is Now the UK's Gerald Ford, with a Carter-Like Era Waiting in the Corbynista Wings