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Bio and CV
(On leave from June 2011 onwards at
the Lee Kuan
Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore)
Ramkishen S. RAJAN is a Professor of Public
Policy and International Economic Policy at the School of Public Policy, George Mason University (GMU), a
position he has held since January 2006. He is also affiliated with the Center for Emerging Market
Policies (CEMP) at the university which he helped
establish. Prior to that he was on the faculty of the School of
Economics, University of Adelaide for five years where he continues to be a
Visiting Faculty. He is also the Joint Economic Research Program Coordinator
and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), a Senior
Research Fellow at the Claremont Institute for Economic Policy Studies, Claremont Graduate University in
California, and an Associate Faculty at the Center for Global Studies, George Mason University. He is
currently visiting at the LKY
School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. In the past he
has held visiting positions at the Department of Economics, Claremont McKenna College in
Professor
Rajan specializes in international finance with particular reference to the
developing Asia-Pacific region. Specific topics of interest include
international capital flows and trade in Asia, exchange rate regimes and
reserve policies in Asia, and Asian economic regionalism (monetary, financial
and trade). He has published numerous books, journal articles and book
chapters and a number of policy briefs, op-eds and book reviews on various aspects
of international economics.
He is the Managing Editor of the Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy and sits on the Editorial Board of various other academic journals including Development Policy Review, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, International Journal of Business, Management and Economics and e-social science Journal. He holds Economics degrees from the National University of Singapore (B.Soc.Sci., Hons), Michigan (M.A.) and Claremont (M.A., PhD). He has been a consultant with the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, the UN-ESCAP, the APEC Secretariat, the Development Bank of Singapore and other places.
