This research planning project establishes the "Center for the Study of Governance and Society" at King's College London as an intellectual home for scholars and policy leaders interested in freedom in East and Southeast Asia, supporting research that applies liberal principles to the region’s institutional and cultural complexities through the creation of a long-term research project,  entitled the "Asia Freedom Project"

The project seeks to reconnect economic thinking to ontological, anthropological, and epistemological foundations by restoring core links between Philosophy, Economics, and Politics (PPE), advancing integrated PPE methodologies for academia and policymaking.