Alex Capri is a former Senior Fellow and current Senior Lecturer in the Business School at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He also lectures in the NUS Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
Alex is a research fellow at the Hinrich Foundation, in Singapore, where he has authored a series of ground-breaking essays on international trade, technology and great power rivalry.
He is the author of Techno-nationalism: How its Reshaping Trade, Geopolitics and Society (Wiley).
From 2007-2012, Alex was the Partner and Regional Leader of KPMG’s International Trade & Customs Practice in Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong.
Alex has done decades of work in international business, trade and global value chains -- both as an academic and a professional consultant. He has advised clients on cross-border projects in more than 40 countries, throughout Asia and the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas.
He has worked extensively in both emerging and developing economies.
- Optimizing cross-border supply chain trade strategies, re-shoring, friend-shoring and restructuring
- Scenario mapping around export controls, sanctions, data restrictions, black-listings
- Digital trade and MSMEs
-Geopolitical risk management and mitigation
Alex has been a panellist, author and workshop leader for the World Economic Forum.
Alex writes a column in Forbes magazine and the Nikkei Asia and is a frequent guest on global television and radio networks, including BBC International, CNBC, Bloomberg and Channel News Asia.
He holds an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, in International Political Economy and a B.Sc. in International Relations, from the University of Southern California.