Ramkishen S. Rajan is Yong Pung How Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. From 2006 to 2016 he was a Professor of International Economic Policy at George Mason University (GMU) in Virginia, USA. He has also taught at the Claremont McKenna College in California, ESSEC Business School (Asia-Pacific), University of Adelaide in Australia and Singapore Management University, among other places.

Professor Rajan has been a Visiting Fellow at various regional research institutes, including the Asia Competitiveness Institute, Institute of South Asian Studies and Institute of Policy Studies (all part of National University of Singapore), Asian Development Bank Institute, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research and Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi. He has been a consultant with the APEC Secretariat, Asian Development Bank, Development Bank of Singapore, UN-ESCAP and the World Bank. In 2022, he was the inaugural “One Day in the Bank” Visiting Economist at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). He has been awarded the Podlich Distinguished Fellowship at Claremont McKenna College for Academic Year 2024-25.

Professor Rajan holds a B.Soci.Sci. (Hons) from NUS, M.A. from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and M.A. and PhD from Claremont Graduate University, California. He specialises in international macro-financial policies with particular reference to emerging Asia.

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