I am interested in where economic power comes from—and what it looks like before it becomes policy.
My work sits between the factory floor and the policy table. I have worked across Southeast Asia’s manufacturing, energy and heavy-industry sectors, leading industrial strategy, market development and operational expansion. That experience has given me a particular view of geoeconomics: not simply as competition between states, but as a contest over physical capabilities, commercial relationships and the infrastructure on which national power depends.
I write about industrial strategy, critical supply chains and the political economy of the Indo-Pacific. My work has appeared in The Interpreter, The Hindu, Asia Times, East Asia Forum, Geopolitical Monitor and Modern Diplomacy, and I have presented to international audiences across policy, defence and industry.
I am also a PhD candidate in International Economics at the University of Malaya. My research examines how ASEAN and the European Union are responding differently to critical supply-chain risks under US–China competition. Alongside this, I contribute to the Helsinki Geoeconomics Society’s work on corporate geoeconomics and the expanding strategic role of firms.
I am building the Andromeda Network as an applied-policy platform for people who think economic security cannot be understood from government and academia alone. Industrial operators know where capacity exists, where systems fail and which dependencies cannot be diversified away by announcement.
This website is an evolving record of that work: essays, research, field observations and conversations about how power is built in the real economy.