TALKS

Upcoming Conference Presentations and Invited Talks

  • “The Limits of Investment in EVs and Batteries: Domestic Demand, Market Competition and Industrial Policy for Energy Transition,” 3rd IAEE MENA Conference: Domestic Energy and Economic Transformations in a Transitioning World, King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (November 8-9, 2024)
  • “End-Users at Inflection Point: The Gulf Region in the U.S.-China Tech War,” Panel on ‘The Indo-Pacific, the Middle East and Regional Order and Disorder,’ The Annual International Multidisciplinary Conference, ‘The Gulf in the Emerging Regional (Dis)Order’. Gulf Studies Center, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar (November 17-18, 2024)
  • Panel 2: ‘Global Tech Companies and Governments,’ Ally-Shoring and South Korea’s High-Tech Industry, Korea in Global Affairs Initiative, School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC USA (November 15, 2024)
  • Session 5: ‘Technology Nationalism and Innovation,’ Workshop on Indo-Pacific Response to Geostrategic and Tech Rivalry, The Pacific Forum & the Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan (November 13-14, 2024)
  • Panel Session 1: ‘Semiconductors,’ Geoeconomics Summit 2024: Improving Resilience through Rules-Based International Order, Institute of Geoeconomics, The International House of Japan, Tokyo, Japan (November 1, 2024)
  • Majlis@Waseda: “AI Chips and Data Centers in the Gulf: Investing in Running and Powering AI in the Tech War,” Waseda Qatar Chair (Chair of the State of Qatar for Islamic Area Studies), Tokyo, Japan (October 31, 2024)

Past Conference Presentations and Invited Talks

  • Brownbag Seminar, “EVs and Batteries in the Gulf,” Middle East Council on Global Affairs, Doha, Qatar (September 2, 2024)
  • Day 1: “The “Geolegality” of U.S. Investment Screening on Chips and AI: Cases from East Asia and the Gulf,” Workshops on Law, Geoeconomics, and the Breakdown of the International Rules-Based Order: Economic Lawfare Amid Rising “Geolegal” Rivalry (August 12, 2024); Day 3: Panel III. Geoeconomics in Investment Analysis: Risk and Opportunity, Helsinki Geoeconomics Week 2024, Geoeconomics Society & Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki, Finland (August 12-16, 2024)
  • Panel: ‘Academic Plenary 1: How would managing economies to change in an increasingly complex and fragmented world?’ The 10th Singapore Economics Association (SER), Singapore (July 31-August 2, 2024)
  • “Overcoming the Digital Divide in Finance for the Aging Population in South Korea on the Path toward CBDCs,” Inaugural ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) & ASEAN+3 Finance Think-tank Network (AFTN) Seminar, “Dawn of a New Age in the ASEAN+3?”, Shanghai National Accounting Institute, Shanghai, China (June 6–7, 2024) Presentation Recording video
  • Panel 1: ‘Is the Indo-Pacific a Relevant Scale to Develop Economic Security Policy Frameworks?’ in ‘The Indo-Pacific, an opportunity for our economic security strategies?’ Institut Montaigne & the Institute of Geoeconomics (IOG) Joint Public Conference, Tokyo, Japan (June 3, 2024) Presentation Recording video
  • Pre-panel: CBDC Roundtable, ‘Reinventing Money: Central Bank Digital Currencies and their Global Implications,’ Middle East Council and IICPSD, Istanbul, Turkiye (May 10-11, 2024)
  • Panel 2: ‘The International Semiconductor Landscape: ‘Siliconpolitik’ and Global Partnerships,’ in ‘Semiconductors, AI and Global Economic Security: A Framework for International Strategic Cooperation,’ Centre on Emerging Technologies and Security, Alan Turing Institute, British Library, London, United Kingdom (May 7, 2024)
  • Workshop 1 on the Revival of Industrial Policy and Competition with China, Trilateral U.S.-ROK-Japan Cooperation on Economic Security, Center on Asian Policy Studies (CAPS), Foreign Policy Program, The Brookings Institution (April 25, 2024)
  • “The Race for Supremacy in AI Chips: Industrial Policy, Export Controls, and Investment Restrictions.” Panel 4: ‘International Developments in Supply Chain Resilience Amid De-Globalisation,’ Asia-Pacific Programme for Senior National Security Officers (APPSNO) 2024: Defining the State of Security in Uncertain Conditions: Lessons and Responses, Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS), S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore (April 14-19, 2024)
  • “AI Chip Competition amid U.S. Chip Export Controls Expansion into the Gulf.” Non-Brownbag Seminar, Middle East Council on Global Affairs, Doha, Qatar. (March 26, 2024)
  • Roundtable on the Multilateral Reform Agenda – Global Financial Safety Net & Financial System Stability, The Brookings Institution (Online, January 24, 2024)