Dr Lili Yan Ing is Lead Advisor on the Southeast Asia Region at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). She also serves as Secretary General of the International Economic Association (IEA). Dr Ing was appointed as Lead Advisor to the Minister of Trade of Indonesia in 2017–19 and Advisor to the President on Trade and Investment in 2015–16. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Australian National University. She has edited and contributed chapters to books on technology, trade, and investment, including Local Content Requirements: Promises and Pitfalls (2023), Robots and AI: A New Economic Era (2022), Indonesia’s G20: New Normal, New Technologies, New Financing (2022), East Asian Integration: Goods, Services and Investment (2019), and World Trade Evolution: Growth, Productivity and Employment (2018).
