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James Crabtree
Executive Director, Asia, International Institute for Strategic Studies
James plays a leading role in organizing the annual IISS Shangri-La Dialogue and Fullerton Forum: The Shangri-La Sherpa Meeting, as well as the Fullerton Lecture series. He also leads the growing research team here focusing on the Asia-Pacific and contributes to IISS publications. He was previously an Associate Professor of Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and FT Mumbai bureau chief. He also worked as a senior policy adviser in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He was educated at Harvard and the London School of Economics. His book, The Billionaire Raj was shortlisted for the FT / McKinsey book of the year.
