Razeen Sally

Professor Razeen Sally’s research and teaching focus on trade policy in Asia, the WTO and preferential trade agreements.

Professor Sally taught at the London School of Economics, where he received his PhD. He has held visiting research and teaching positions at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, Institut D’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, the Australian National University, the University of Hong Kong, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, and Dartmouth College in the USA.

He was on the advisory boards of the Institute of Economic Affairs (UK) and the Centre for Independent Studies (Australia). He was also Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Competitiveness, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, Senior Research Associate at the South African Institute of International Affairs in Johannesburg and Chairman of the Institute of Policy Studies, the main economic policy think tank in his native Sri Lanka. He was a co-founder and director of the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), a global-economy think tank in Brussels.

Professor Sally’s areas of research and teaching include global trade policy and Asia in the world economy. He has written on the WTO, FTAs and on different aspects of trade policy in Asia. He has also written on the history of economic ideas, especially the theory of commercial policy. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.