2025 Summer SEAREG Conference

Join us for SEAREG's 2025 Summer Conference at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand, July 7-9!

Keynote Speakers

State of the Region

Danny Quah is the Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS. He works on world order, economic growth and development, and inequality and income mobility. In his research on world order, Quah analyses the supply and demand of international systems, contrasting the goals of the Great Powers and the needs of the global community. Quah's work on income mobility challenges conventional narratives on inequality, highlighting the importance of growth and the diversity of economic experiences. He seeks to help shape global economic and geopolitical discourse through academic research, public commentary, as a member of World Bank President's Economic Advisory Panel and other public commissions, and in advisory roles at World Economic Forum, UNDP, and government agencies and ministries.

About Danny Quah

State of the Field

Brenda Yeoh Saw Ai FBA is the Raffles Professor of Social Sciences in the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore and Research Leader of the Asian Migration Cluster at the Asia Research Institute. Having made important contributions to the field of migration and transnationalism studies, she was awarded the Vautrin Lud Prize for outstanding achievements in Geography in 2021. For her contributions and public service in Singapore, she was awarded the Public Service Medal, National Day Award, in 2022 and Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 2015. She is the editor of Asian Population Studies, co-editor of Population, Space and Place, and serves on the Commission on Population and Vulnerability and the Commission of Geography and Gender, International Geographical Union.

About Brenda Yeoh Saw Ai

2025 Summer SEAREG Fellows

Attawat Assavanadda
University of Hong Kong

"The Tie That Barely Binds: Ethnic Chinese Thais’ Conditional Affinity with the PRC"

Rune Wriedt Larsen
London School of Economics

"The Organisational Origins of Onset: Communist Civil War in the Philippines and Thailand after the Second World War"

Yilin Su
University College London

"Fake News Labels and Public Opinion in Nondemocracies: Evidence from Singapore"

Host

Partner

SEAREG is grateful to the Henry Luce Foundation for its financial support to make this conference possible.

Questions?

Please email Jack Daly at jack.daly@duke.edu.