Danny Quah

Who is Danny Quah?

Danny Quah is Professor of Economics and International Development, and Kuwait Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Tan Chin Tuan Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore. He served previously as Council Member on Malaysia's National Economic Advisory Council and as Consultant for the Bank of England, the World Bank, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Quah has worked as assistant professor of economics at MIT, visiting assistant Professor of economics at Harvard University, and visiting Professor of Economics at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management and the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. Quah's work includes important contributions to the fields of Economic Growth, Development Economics, Monetary Economics, Macro-Econometrics, and the Weightless Economy.

Quah obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University under Thomas Sargent in 1986 and his A.B. from Princeton University in 1980. He was, for 2006–2009, Head of Department for Economics at London School of Economics and Political Science.