Amitendu Palit Editor & Author

Amitendu Palit is Senior Research Fellow and Research Lead (trade and economics) in the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) in the National University of Singapore (NUS). An economist with nearly three decades of policy and academic experience, he works on international trade and investment, political economy of public policies, India & Asia-Pacific. Prior to NUS, he spent several years in India’s Ministry of Finance. He has authored and edited several books with leading international publishers, including ‘China India Economics: Challenges, Competition and Collaboration' (2011), 'The Trans Pacific Partnership, China and India: Economic and Political Implications' (2014), 'Special Economic Zones in India: Myths and Realities' (2008; co-authored), 'Seeking Middle Ground: Land, Markets and Public Policy' (2019; co-edited), ‘Seven Decades of Independent India’ (2018; co-edited) and 'Employment Policy in Emerging Economies' (2017; co-edited). Author of several peer-reviewed academic journals, he is member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Trade and Investment, a columnist for India’s Financial Express, and a commentator for BBC, Bloomberg News, Channel News Asia and CNBC.