James Crabtree

Associate Professor in Practice at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

James Crabtree is an Associate Professor in Practice at the LKY school, as well as a senior fellow at the Centre on Asia and Globalisation (CAG). He initially joined the school as a Senior Visiting Research Fellow in 2016, on sabbatical from his previous job at the Financial Times. Between 2011 and 2016, James led the FT’s coverage of Indian business as Mumbai bureau chief, having previously worked on the opinion page in London, as Comment Editor. At the school, James teaches courses on leadership and political communication, as well as the economic and political implications of the global financial crisis. As a fellow at CAG, he works on various topics related to the future of globalisation, from the future of connectivity in Asia to relations between China and India. James is also a non-resident fellow at the Asia programme at Chatham House in London, and writes a fortnightly column for Nikkei Asian Review.

James has previously worked variously as a journalist and policymaker. Before joining the FT, he was deputy editor at Prospect, Britain’s leading monthly magazine of politics and idea. He has also written for a range of other global publications, including the Economist, Wired, and Foreign Policy. Before journalism, James was a senior policy advisor in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He also worked for various think tanks in London and Washington DC, and spent a number of years living in the United States, initially as a Fulbright Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

His book, The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age, will be published in mid-2018, by Random House in America, One World in the UK, and Harper Collins in India.

Research Area

American, British, and European Politics

Economic and Financial Regulation

Innovation and New Technology, including the regulation of artificial intelligence

Political Communication

Politics and business in India and South Asia, including India's 2019 election

Regional connectivity, including China's "Belt and Road"

Technology and the future of media

The Future of Globalisation

Trade and the politics of trade in Asia, including RCEP and TPP

PUBLICATION

Why Britain should be allowed to join the TPP

James Crabtree, "Why Britain should be allowed to join the TPP". Straits Times, 2018.

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