• Sir Vince Cable – China, Britain and the a new World Order?

    Sir Vince Cable is a distinguished former Minister, leader of the Liberal Democrat party and current Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics. Throughout his varied career, Sir Vince has also published extensively on issues in the fields of politics, economics and international relations, including ‘After the Storm’, reflecting on the aftermath of…


  • Dr Sreeradha Datta – Bangladesh and the World: Regional Connectivity, Economic Development and Global Participation

    Dr Sreeradha Datta is a professor of international affairs at O.P. Jindal Global University, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. Dr Datta’s research focuses on area studies in South Asia, the Bay of Bengal and the Indo-Pacific, looking at connectivity, regionalism and security challenges there.…


  • Dr Elvis Avenyo – Africa and the Global Economy: Value Chains, Regional Collaboration and Development Pathways 

    By Deiniol Brown Dr Elvis Avenyo is an Associate Professor of Development Economics at the DSI/NRF South African Research Chair in Industrial Development at the University of Johannesburg. Dr Avenyo’s research focuses on the topics of innovation, technologies, industrial development, value chains and green industrialisation in developing countries. He has previously held posts as a…