Managing Economic Crisis in Southeast Asia

The Contributors

The Contributors Muhammad Chatib Basri is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and ResearchAssociate at the Institute of Economic and Social Research, University of Indonesia. He also serves as a special advisor to the Minister for Finance of the Republic of Indonesia. His research interests are in international trade, macroeconomics, and political economy. He is co-editor of Indonesia Business in Indonesia: New Challenges and Old Problems. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the Australian National University. Suthiphand Chirathivat is Associate Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University. He was former Dean of the Faculty of Economics as well as Chairman of the Economic Research Centre. He is Advisor to the Ministry of ForeignAffairs and is a Member of the Thailand’s Committee on International Economic Policy. He is co-editor of East Asian’s Monetary Future: Integration in the Global Economy. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. K. K. Foong is a Senior Research Fellow at the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research. His research interests include the evolution of the financial sector, economic growth, and econometrics. He has previously worked at the Central Bank of Malaysia. He has served as a consultant to xviii The Contributors many international organizations. He obtained his Ph.D. in finance and economics from the University of Melbourne. Srinivasa Madhur is Senior Director in the Office of Regional Economic Integration at the Asian Development Bank. He has served as Economic Advisor to several ministries in the Government of India. He also served as a Member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Indian Prime Minister. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the Department of Economics, Yale University. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from the Delhi School of Economics. Ruperto P. Majuca is a Senior Research Fellow at the Philippine Institute for Development Studies. His research interests are in the areas of macroeconomics, monetary economics, and applied time series. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he obtained his Ph.D. in economics. Sothitorn Mallikamas is in the Faculty of Economics at Chulalongkorn University. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Economics from 2005 to 2008. His research interests are in economic and financial liberalization and regional economic integration. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Nguyen Anh Duong is a Researcher at the Department for Macroeconomic Policy and Integration Studies, Central Institute for Economic Management. His research interests are in econometric forecasts, trade policy, and monetary policy. He has a M.A. degree in economics from the Australian National University. The Contributors xix Saw Swee-Hock is Professorial Fellow at the Institute of SoutheastAsian Studies and President’s Honorary Professor of Statistics at the National University of Singapore. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics and Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong and Xiamen University. He is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the National University of Singapore. His publications are mainly on statistics, demography and finance. Among his major publications are Investment Management (Fifth Edition), Sovereign Wealth Funds (co-author), Introduction to Islamic Finance (co-author), ASEAN-China Economic Relations (editor) and Managing Economic Crisis in East Asia (co-editor). He received his Ph.D. in statistics from the London School of Economics. Tan Chwee Huat is Professorial Fellow at the Department of Management and Organization, NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. His research interests include human capital management and employment relations. His main publications are Personal Finance in Singapore, Financing for Entrepreneurs and Business, Financial Services in Singapore, Financial Markets and Institutions, Singapore and Hong Kong as Competing Financial Centres (co-author) and Managing Financial Crisis in Singapore. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Vo Tri Thanh is Vice-President of the Central Institute for Economic Management. His research interests are in trade and international economic integration policies, monetary policy and fiscal policy. He has published Vietnam’s Export to EU: An Overview and Assessment Using CMS-based xx The Contributors Approach. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from the Australian National University. Joseph Yap is President of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies. He is also the regional coordinator of the East Asian Development Network. His research interests are in the...