Yougesh Khatri is an Associate Professor at Nanyang Business School and is the Academic Director for the Nanyang Fellows MBA Programme. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Global Economy and Finance Department of Chatham House (UK); a member of the OMFIF Advisory Council (UK); Member of the Academic Council of the Global FinTec Institute (Singapore); and a member of the Stewardship Discussion Circle of the Stewardship Asia Centre (Singapore), among other things. Prof. Khatri returned to full-time academia after more than two decades spanning careers at the IMF and in financial markets. Between 1998 and 2009, he was an economist with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He spent two years at the IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in Tokyo (working on Japan and regional issues), and three years as an IMF Resident Representative in Jakarta. During 2010-11, he led macroeconomic research on Southeast Asia at Nomura Singapore Ltd (while on leave from the IMF). During 2011-2015 he held senior roles as GIC including Head of the Economics and Capital Markets, Head of New Horizons and Advisor at the GIC London office. From 2015 to early 2018, he was the Managing Director of Alphanomiks PTE Ltd, based in London and travelling regularly to Asia for macroeconomic, financial sector and public policy advisory work - including as an Advisor to GIC, a Senior International Advisor to the Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Economic Development (PROSPERA) in Jakarta and as a consultant to the Asian Development Bank on various projects in Asia.