Julian Wright (born 18 March 1969 in New Zealand) is a Singapore-based academic and economist.
He is the Lim Chong Yah Professor at the National University of Singapore and head of the Department of Economics.Wright completed a Bachelor of Science with honors at University of Canterbury in 1991.
In 1996, he completed a doctorate at Stanford University.
Wright works in the area of industrial organization, and specializes in the economics of multi-sided platforms such as online marketplaces, payment platforms, and booking platforms.
He has consulted on the economics of platforms, and related competition policy and regulatory matters.