James Crabtree

James Crabtree is an Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, as well as a Senior Fellow at the Centre on Asia and Globalisation (CAG). He is also a non-resident fellow at the Asia programme at Chatham House in London, and writes a fortnightly column for Nikkei Asian Review. From 2011 to 2016, he led coverage of corporate India for the Financial Times, having previously worked on the paper’s opinion page in London as Comment Editor. James worked previously for Prospect, Britain’s leading monthly magazine of politics and ideas, and has written elsewhere for a range of global publications, including the Economist and Wired. Prior to that, he worked as a policy advisor in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, and also for various think tanks in London and Washington DC. He spent a number of years living in the United States, initially as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.