Ass. Prof. Dr. Vedi Renandi Hadiz

Vedi Hadiz is a political sociologist with interests mainly in issues of social, political, and economic change in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, as well as in broader political economy and development questions. He received his PhD in 1996 at Murdoch University Australia, where he was Research Fellow at the Asia Research Centre before joining NUS in 2000.

Sociology of Power; Conflict and Power in Comparative Perspective; Globalisation; Social Thought and Social Theory, Southeast Asia are his teaching areas.
His currently research are The Political Economy of Decentralisation in Indonesia and Southeast Asia; Local Power/Global Economy; Empire and Neoliberalism in Asia; Corruption and DevelopmentHis research interest are about Development and Social Change; Political Economy of Indonesia/Southeast Asia; Labour Politics; Social Movements