Bryan is the Director and Fellow of the LSE Hayek Program at STICERD. He is also a Teaching Fellow at the School of Public Policy and the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method. He received his PhD in Political Economy from King’s College London, where he is also Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society.

His research interests are in the intersection of philosophy, politics and economics with a particular focus on comparative political economy, the ethics of market exchange, the role of the state in development, the challenge of effective industrial policy, and Asian politics.

He has published numerous articles and books, including Southeast Asia’s Development: Toward Liberal Individualism and Inclusive Governance (OUP, 2025), Institutions and Economic Development (Springer, 2023) and Economic Liberalism and the Developmental State: Hong Kong and Singapore’s Post-War Development (Palgrave, 2022). He is currently working on a Cambridge Elements on liberal political economy and a critique of mission-oriented industrial strategy.