Asia in 2050 Conference

Panelists

Muhamad Chatib Basri is a former Minister of Finance of Indonesia. Previously he was the Chairman of the Indonesian Investment Coordinating Board. Dr. Basri is now the Chairman of the PT Bank Mandiri tbk. He taught at the Department of Economics University of Indonesia. Dr. Basri is a member of the World Bank Advisory Council on Gender and Development, member of the board of commissioner of the Low Carbon Development Initiative for Indonesia and member of the Advisory Board, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, the Australian National University. He was a Thee Kian Wie Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Australian National University (2016-2017), Ash Centre Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School (2015-2016), Pacific Leadership Fellow at the Centre on Global Transformation, University of California San Diego (2016) and NTUC Professor of International Economic Relation, RSIS, NTU, Singapore (2016). His expertise is International Trade, Macroeconomics and Political Economy.

Aaditya Mattoo is Chief Economist of the East Asia and Pacific Region of the World Bank. He specializes in development, trade and international cooperation, and provides policy advice to governments. He is also Co-Director of the World Development Report 2020 on Global Value Chains. Prior to this he was the Research Manager, Trade and Integration, at the World Bank. Before he joined the Bank, Mr. Mattoo was Economic Counsellor at the World Trade Organization and taught economics at the University of Sussex and Churchill College, Cambridge University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Cambridge, and an M.Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford. He has published on development, trade, trade in services, and international trade agreements in academic and other journals and his work has been cited in the Economist, Financial Times, New York Times, and Time Magazine.

Danny Quah is Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics. His research interests lie in international economic relations, economic growth and development, and income inequality and social mobility. Quah's current projects (1) study the modern practice of economic statecraft; and (2) analyze the impact of fraying multilateralism on economic growth and social mobility. Among other positions, Quah serves on the World Bank President's Economic Advisory Panel; the World Bank Group Institute for Economic Development's Advisory Board; the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Geopolitics; and Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management's Global Advisory Board. Quah was previously Assistant Professor of Economics at MIT, and then at LSE Professor of Economics and International Development, and Director of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre. At LSE he also served as Head of Department for Economics. At the School Quah served as Dean 2018-2025. Quah studied at Princeton, Minnesota, and Harvard.

Arvind Subramanian is senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE). Previously, he has taught at Brown, Ashoka and Harvard Universities. He served as the chief economic advisor to the government of India between 2014 and 2018. He currently also advises state governments on macro-economic, fiscal and sectoral issues. Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the world's top 100 global thinkers in 2011. His latest book on India (co-authored with Devesh Kapur), "A Sixth of Humanity: Independent India's Development Odyssey" was named amongst the Financial Times' best books of 2025 by Martin Wolf. As chief economic adviser, his annual Economic Survey of India, became a widely read document on Indian economic policy and development. The 2018 Survey had 20 million views from over 190 countries in its first year of publication. His reflections on his tenure were published as "Of Counsel: The Challenges of the Jaitley-Modi Economy." His critically acclaimed book, Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance sold over 130,000 copies and was translated into 4 languages.

Keyu Jin is a global economist and the author of The New China Playbook: Beyond Capitalism and Socialism. She served as a tenured Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 2009 to 2024. A native of China, Jin holds a BA and PhD from Harvard University. She is currently a Professor of Finance at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her latest book was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by the Financial Times and Fortune Magazine. Jin's research focuses on China and the global economy, the US-China technology competition, and global macroeconomics. She serves on the boards of Richemont Group and Jardine Matheson, is a member of China Finance 40, and advises on the Economic Council of the State of Qatar and the World Bank. Jin is widely regarded as a leading voice bridging the East and West, and has been profiled in The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine. She is also a regular contributor of opinion pieces for the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other major publications.