Lili Yan Ing

Lili Yan Ing is an Indonesian economist. She is currently a Senior Economist at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia ERIA, serving as a Senior Advisor on Trade and Investment for the Southeast Asian region. She is also the founder of ‘The Indonesian Economy’, a world economist society working on the Indonesian economy and Southeast Asia. She also teaches International Trade at the University of Indonesia and gives public lectures on Trade from time to time.

Dr Ing served as a Senior Advisor on Trade and Investment at the President’s Office of the Republic of Indonesia from 2015–2016. Prior to her current position, she was an economist with the World Bank.

She has published a number of publications, among others: Production Networks in Southeast Asia, an ERIA–UNCTAD joint publication entitled Non-Tariff Measures in ASEAN, and an article with Mari Pangestu on 50 Years of Indonesia’s Trade Policy. Her forthcoming book is The Indonesian Economy: Trade and Industrial Policy. She also leads the project on the development of database on Non-Tariff Measures which cover all export and import regulations for the 10 ASEAN countries.

She regularly speaks at international meetings such as WTO symposiums, NTM International Expert meetings, the East Asian Business Summit, the ASEAN Business and Investment Summit, and participates in RCEP negotiations, ASEAN—US, ASEAN—EU, ASEAN Senior Economic Official meetings, and ASEAN High Level Task Force meetings, and gives trainings and speeches at a number of important conferences related to Southeast Asia. She is also a frequent contributor to leading newspapers including among others, The Diplomat, the Asian Nikkei Review, and the Jakarta Post.

Dr Ing obtained her PhD on International Trade from the Australian National University in 2009 where she was awarded the ‘Promising Young Economist’ by the Pacific Trade and Development Forum, and she was the Best and the Fastest Honour Graduate of Gadjah Mada University in 1999.