Kopi Time podcast with Taimur Baig
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Kopi time is a podcast series on insights from markets and economies around the world, hosted by Taimur Baig, Ph.D., Chief Economist of DBS Bank Ltd.
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Kopi Time E179: Energy markets with Vandana Hari
We discuss energy market outlook with Vandana Hari, founder of Vanda Insights, a Singapore-based provider of energy market intelligence. We begin with the crude and refined product bottleneck created…
Kopi Time E178: AI and National Interest with Dr. Anthony Annett
Should AI be nationalised, or at least have a substantial part of its equity held by the public sector? I collaborated recently with author and economist Anthony Annett to delve into this issue. The…
Kopi Time E177 - Deborah Elms on Trade Matters
A year since the reciprocal tariff bombshell, how has trade changed and what realignments are in the making? We invite back to Kopi Time, Deborah Elms, Hinrich Foundation’s head of trade policy, to…
DBS Kopi Time E176- Notes from IMF Meetings - Stark Disconnect
The week of the IMF Spring Meetings were characterised by a stark contrast. Markets focused on fading war risks and kept rallying. But official sector and analysts’ warnings about public debt, energy…
Kopi Time E175: DBS CEO Tan Su Shan on wars, tariffs, AI, and fintech
The first time Tan Su Shan came on Kopi Time, it was right after the war in Ukraine had broken out and energy and food prices were spiking worldwide. Four years later, another war and another bout of…
Kopi Time E174 - Future of Jobs and Tasks with AI Singapore's Leslie Teo
In a recent collaboration with Dr. Leslie Teo, Senior Director of AI Products at AI Singapore, we published an article on redefining jobs and expertise in the AI era (link here). The process of…
Kopi Time E173 - Dr. Khor Hoe Ee on Asia's Resilience and the Road Ahead
Dr. Khor Hoe Ee, presently with Nanyang Technology University, with a long career in multilateral institutions and central banking, returns to Kopi Time. We begin with his recent writings, part of…
Kopi Time E172: ICRIER head Shekhar Aiyar on key aspects of India’s outlook
Dr. Shekhar Aiyar, Director and CEO of Indian Centre for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), returns to Kopi Time for a wide-ranging discussion on India. We begin with the clear,…
Kopi Time E171 - IIF's Tim Adams on the Fed, US Fiscal, & Financial Stability
Timothy Adams, President and CEO of the Institute of International Finance, brings his deep experience and expertise to Kopi Time. We begin with the nomination of Kevin Warsh as the next Fed Chair,…
Kopi Time E170: Bernard Haykel on foreign policy in the Americas and the Middle-East
Bernard Haykel, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, returns to Kopi Time to walk us through various geopolitical flashpoints. We begin with the US’s recent intervention in…
Kopi Time E169 - Upside to the US, China, and Singapore
In the year’s first podcast, we examine the factors that could help overcome ongoing geoeconomic uncertainty, helping achieve trend growth outcomes in the US, China, and Singapore. The year has begun…
Kopi Time E168 - 2026 Stagflation Risk with Komal Sri-Kumar
Fiscal slippage, lower economic growth, sticky inflation, weaker dollar, steeper yield curve, financial instability; these are the key prognostications of Dr. Komal Sri-Kumar in our year-end podcast.…
Kopi Time E167 - Noah Doyle on Tech, AI, and Bubbles
Noah Doyle, Managing Partner at Javelin Investment Partners in Silicon Valley, with decades-long background in venture capital, joins Kopi Time to talk about tech and AI. We begin with a general…
Kopi Time E166: David Marsh on Europe’s Existential Challenges
David Marsh, Chairman of OMFIF economic research group, returns to Kopi Time to talk about the UK and Europe, with his new book, “Can Europe Survive?” (Yale University Press, link here), anchoring…
Kopi Time E165 - Jawed Ashraf on India's Foreign Policy
Jawed Ashraf, with over three decades in Indian foreign service, including Ambassador to France and High Commissioner to Singapore, offers his insights on India’s foreign policy here and now. We…
Kopi Time E164: The “new China shock” with Arvind Subramanian
We welcome back Arvind Subramanian, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, to Kopi Time. We focus on some recent work by Arvind and Shoumitro Chatterjee (see article…
Kopi Time E163 - Notes from IMF Meetings - Resilience Among Fragmentation
In this episode, I deliberate over the recently concluded IMF-World Bank annual meetings. The IMF Meetings in Washington DC featured some recognition of global resiliency amid geoeconomic…
Kopi Time E162: AMRO’s Dr Dong He on the regional outlook
Dr. Dong He, Chief Economist of ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO), joins Kopi Time to discuss the regional outlook. Dong weighs in on the impact of high US tariffs on the regional economy,…
Kopi Time E161 - Jeff Johnson from AWS on cloud and AI
Jeff Johnson, MD and General Manager for Asean at AWS, joins Kopi Time to talk about all things cloud. We begin with AWS’s reach and scale, spectrum of services, and regional engagement. Jeff…
Kopi Time E160 - Eswar Prasad on Stablecoins
We go deep into stablecoins, the idea and practice of which have been around for a while, but a few things have happened this summer to make the matter catch major momentum. To parse through these…
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Kopi Time podcast with Taimur Baig has published 100 episodes since July 2022, covering topics in Business, Government.
Kopi Time podcast with Taimur Baig is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 48m.
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