Lili Yan Ing serves as the Secretary General of the International Economic Association (IEA). Dr Ing is also Lead Advisor (Southeast Asia Region) at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA).
Dr. Ing was appointed as Lead Advisor to the Minister of Trade of Indonesia from 2017– 2019 and Senior Advisor on Trade and Investment at the President’s Office of the Republic of Indonesia from 2015–2016. During her tenure, Indonesia concluded the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the Indonesia—Australia CEPA, the Indonesia—Korea CEPA, and the Indonesia—EFTA CEPA, and reactivated the Indonesia—EU CEPA. She represented Indonesia at the G20 Trade Ministers Meeting in 2018 and the WTO—OECD Trade Ministers Meeting in 2018.
Her latest books and reports, among others, include G20 Indonesia: New Normal, New Technologies, New Financing (with Dani Rodrik), Robots and AI: A New Economic Era (with Gene Grossman), The Indonesian Economy (with Gordon Hanson and Sri Mulyani Indrawati), World Trade Evolution (with Miaojie Yu), East Asian Integration (with Shujiro Urata and Martin Richardon), Non-Tariff Measures in Australia, China, India, Korea, and New Zealand (with Denise Penello Rial and Rizky Anandhika), and Regional Integration and Non-Tariff Measures in ASEAN (with Ralf Peters and Olivier Cadot).
Dr Ing completed her PhD in Economics majoring in International Trade at the Australian National University in February 2019, rewarded as Young Promising Economist by PAFTAD. Recently, Dr Ing was granted the International Economic Association Economist Fellow Award in 2022.