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.

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.
Pacific links: Tsai’s island travels, new in Niue, more
Pacific links: Tsai’s island travels, new in Niue, more
Indonesia’s interests in the neighbourhood, Vanuatu’s economy, and stories from the Pacific Islands region.
Aid links: cyclones, “confusopoly”, collaboration, more
Aid links: cyclones, “confusopoly”, collaboration, more
Links and stories from the aid and development sector.
Not one, but two new points of tension for France in the Pacific
Not one, but two new points of tension for France in the Pacific
Two tiny and uninhabited islands have revived deep tensions between France and Vanuatu, even after New Caledonia’s vote.
Pacific links: faux pas, cricket bats, more
Pacific links: faux pas, cricket bats, more
Links and stories from the Pacific Islands region.
Aid links: donation paradox, surface-water tension, and more
Aid links: donation paradox, surface-water tension, and more
Links and stories from the aid and development sector.
Pacific Links: earthquakes, cyclones, and single-use plastic
Pacific Links: earthquakes, cyclones, and single-use plastic
Links and stories from the Pacific Islands region.
Aid links: calls for Australia first, the upside of dengue, more
Aid links: calls for Australia first, the upside of dengue, more
Why refugees cutting down trees has led to strife in Uganda, plus more stories from the aid and development sector.
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