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Dr Jikon Lai

Assistant Professor
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BSc (LSE); MPhil (Oxon); PhD (ANU)
: [email protected]
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: CMS
Global Health Security: COVID-19 and Its Impacts – Pandemic Tracking: The Unfortunate Use of Statistics
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Dr Jikon Lai

Assistant Professor
Education
BSc (LSE); MPhil (Oxon); PhD (ANU)
: [email protected]
: +65 6908 5131
: CMS

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Biography

Jikon Lai is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Multilateralism Studies, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University.

Jikon’s research interests lie at the intersection of international and comparative political economies, and international relations. His work examines how state, business and societal actors create, reproduce and sustain finance and the financial sector. He is animated by the desire to understand the interplay of domestic and international factors on financial systems. These intellectual interests are realised in several empirical domains: financial sector development and governance in East Asia, the evolution of a sovereign wealth fund in an emerging economy, regional financial architecture and Islamic finance. He has, for the most part, adopted institutional approaches in his work, but has also employed agent-centred and ideational perspectives where they are methodologically relevant.

Jikon’s research output has been published in Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy, Journal of the Asia-Pacific Economy, Asia Europe Journal and the Australian Journal of Public Administration. He is also author of a book – ‘Financial Crisis and Institutional Change in East Asia’ – published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012.

Jikon received his doctoral degree from the Department of International Relations in the College of Asia & the Pacific at The Australian National University. He had previously studied at the University of Oxford where he obtained an M.Phil. in International Relations; and the London School of Economics and Political Science, finishing with a B.Sc. in Economics (First Class).

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Areas of Expertise

  • International political economy
  • Comparative politics
  • Political economy of East Asia
  • Global political economy of finance
  • Politics of Islamic finance
  • Economic governance and development

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RSIS Publications

    Commentaries

    • Global Health Security: COVID-19 and Its Impacts - Pandemic Tracking: The Unfortunate Use of Statistics

      01 June, 2020

    • IMF Changing of the Guard: Sorry Tale of Leadership Transition

      19 July, 2019

    • RSIS-WTO Parliamentarian Workshop - The Rising Tide: Trade in Services and Intangibles

      10 June, 2019

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External Publications

Authored Books

  • Financial Crisis and Institutional Change in East Asia. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Journal Articles

  • “Jikon Lai, Lena Rethel and Kerstin Steiner, “Conceptualizing Dynamic Challenges to Global Financial Diffusion: Islamic Finance and the Grafting of Sukuk”, Review of International Political Economy, Vol.24. No.6 (2017).” in Review of International Political Economy, 24, 6, 2017, 958-979
  • “Jikon Lai, “Accountability and the Enforcement of Ethical Values in Finance: Insights from Islamic Finance”, Australian Journal of Public Administration, Vol.73 No.4 (2014)” in Australian Journal of Public Administration, 73, 4, 2015, 437-449
  • “Jikon Lai, “Industrial Policy and Islamic Finance”, New Political Economy, Vol.20 No.2 (2015).” in New Political Economy, 20, 2, 2014, 178-198
  • “Jikon Lai, “Khazanah Nasional: Malaysia’s Treasure Trove“, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Vol.17 No.2 (2012).” in Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 17, 2, 2012, 236-252
  • “Jikon Lai and John Ravenhill, “Asia’s Multi-Level Response to the Global Financial Crisis“, Asia Europe Journal, Vol.9 Nos.2-4 (2012).” in Asia Europe Journal, 9, 2-4, 2012, 141-157

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