Prabir De Professor, ASEAN-India Centre (AIC), Research and Information System for Developing Countries, New Delhi, India

Prabir De is a Professor at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi. He is also the Head of ASEAN-India Centre (AIC) at RIS. Dr De works in the field of international economics and has research interests in international trade and development. He was a Visiting Fellow of the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO), Chiba; Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo and Visiting Senior Fellow of United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), Bangkok. He has been conducting policy research for the Government of India and several national and international organisations. Dr De has a PhD in Economics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He has contributed several research papers in international journals and written books on trade and development. His recent publications include Celebrating the Third Decade and Beyond: New Challenges to ASEAN – India Economic Partnership (Routledge, 2018), Myanmar's Integration with the World: Challenges and Policy Options (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Twenty Years of BIMSTEC: Promoting Regional Cooperation and Integration in the Bay of Bengal Region (BIMSTEC Secretariat, 2018). He is also the Editor of South Asia Economic Journal, published by SAGE.

Contact Prof Prabir De at prabirde@ris.org.in; prabirde@hotmail.com