Donald Low
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Position: | Visiting Professor, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
Education Background: |
Master in International Public Policy, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University (USA) |
Research Areas
Economics and behavioural economics, decision-making and risk analysis, inequality and social policy, complexity in public policy, organisational behaviour, and the politics and governance
Contact information
Donald Low
Director, HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies
Phone: (852) 3469 2717
Email: donaldlow@ust.hk
Recent publications:
Hong Kong must rebuild public trust to strengthen its crisis response, as Covid-19 mass-testing debacle shows, SCMP, 30 Mar 2022
Hong Kong’s zero-Covid policy risks becoming a trap if no lessons are learned from this tragedy, SCMP, 15 Mar 2022
The 3 most likely scenarios of how the pandemic in Hong Kong ends, SCMP, 18 Feb 2022
Omicron shows Hong Kong can’t maintain zero-Covid, SCMP, 7 Feb 2022
China will struggle to escape the fallout of zero-Covid, The Diplomat, 31 Jan 2022
Can Hong Kong avoid “dynamic zero-Covid” dystopia and be Beijing’s model for re-engaging with the world?, SCMP, 27 Jan 2022
From tuition ban to Evergrande collapse, is China tripping over its chase for ‘common prosperity’?, SCMP, 16 Jan 2022
Beijing’s insistence on zero-Covid challenges long-held assumptions about China, SCMP, 22 Oct 2021
Hong Kong can break free from its zero-Covid corner. Here’s how, SCMP, 20 Aug 2021
Coronavirus won’t just go away. Here’s how Hong Kong can learn to live with it, SCMP, 1 Aug 2021
Economies chasing zero Covid-19 infections are trapped by their own success, SCMP, 8 May 2021
Hong Kong’s axing from Heritage Foundation’s Economic Freedom rankings is a gift, with Heiwai Tang, SCMP, 14 Mar 2021
Why the Hong Kong-Singapore travel bubble is key in adapting to a ‘new normal’, SCMP, 17 Feb 2021
Tackling our labour market woes requires a diverse set of tools, AcademiaSG, 25 Oct 2020
Parti v party: Inequalities and the justice system, AcademiaSG, 12 Sep 2020
The coronavirus crisis is an opportunity to reform the global economic system, IEMS Thought Leadership Brief, Jul 2020
GE2020: Singapore’s day of decision and the challenge of a generation, with Cherian George, AcademiaSG, 13 Jul 2020
GE2020: Why Singapore may lose, whatever the final score, with Cherian George, AcademiaSG, 7 Jul 2020
Beyond the pandemic: efficiency, resilience, justice, AcademiaSG, 1 May 2020
How Singapore can draw the right lessons from the coronavirus crisis, SCMP, 16 Apr 2020
The coronavirus crisis has shown us the global economic system is no longer fit for purpose, SCMP 3 Apr 2020
Covid-19 and climate change have more in common than you think, with Xun WU, TODAY 12 Mar 2020
Why we might have to accept that this new coronavirus is here to stay, SCMP 11 Feb 2020