Alexandre Dayant

Deputy Director, Indo-Pacific Development Centre
Areas of expertise

Politics and economics in Asia and the Pacific; Aid and international development policy.

Alexandre Dayant
Biography
Publications

Alexandre Dayant is a senior economist and Deputy Director of the Indo-Pacific Development Centre, a dedicated policy research centre within the Lowy Institute. The Centre is committed to producing fresh policy insights and ideas on the most pressing economic development challenges facing the Indo-Pacific region — principally focusing on the emerging and developing economies of Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands and South Asia.

Alexandre directs both the Lowy Institute Pacific Aid Map and the Lowy Institute Southeast Asia Aid Map projects, which provide the world’s most comprehensive data tracking of all official aid and other development finance flows to the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia.

His interests are in aid and development finance, and geoeconomics. He writes on Australian foreign policy, development issues, the Pacific Island countries and Europe. He has presented his work across the South Pacific, the United States and Asia, and has notably been invited to testify in front of the United States Congress and the French National Assembly.

Prior to joining the Institute in 2017, Alexandre worked as a management consultant for PwC in Mexico. He has a master’s degree in International and Development Economics from the Australian National University and a master’s degree in Econometrics from La Sorbonne, Paris. Alexandre speaks fluent French, English and Spanish.

Aid links: the cost of a missing shipping container full of cash, more
Aid links: the cost of a missing shipping container full of cash, more
Links and stories from the aid and development sector.
Pacific links: Marape takes the reins, showing up to step up, more
Pacific links: Marape takes the reins, showing up to step up, more
Links and stories from the Pacific Islands region.
Aid links: the degrees of influence, female role models, more
Aid links: the degrees of influence, female role models, more
A collection of stories and links from the aid and development sector.
Pacific links: surely not another MPs citizenship saga ..., more
Pacific links: surely not another MPs citizenship saga ..., more
Solomon Islands demands to Taiwan, trouble in Tuvalu, the journey to be a seasonal worker and more regional stories.
Aid links: fixing the climate to reduce poverty, more
Aid links: fixing the climate to reduce poverty, more
A collection of links and stories from the aid and development sector.
Pacific links: UN chief inbound, don’t forget slip slop slap, more
Pacific links: UN chief inbound, don’t forget slip slop slap, more
Tuvalu has no sunscreen, kickboxing titles in PNG, the ADB in Fiji, plus links from the Pacific islands region.
Aid links: counterpoint to China’s “debt-trap”, malaria vaccine, more
Aid links: counterpoint to China’s “debt-trap”, malaria vaccine, more
Links and stories from the aid and development sector.
Follow the money: how foreign aid spending tells of Pacific priorities
Follow the money: how foreign aid spending tells of Pacific priorities
Donor countries, be it Australia or China, illustrate their regional interests by where they choose to put their cash.
Pacific links: just two women in Solomon Islands parliament, more
Pacific links: just two women in Solomon Islands parliament, more
Links and stories from the Pacific Islands region.
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