Dr. Shankaran Nambiar is Head of Research and Senior Research Fellow at the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (MIER). He is a member of the academic advisory council of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) and a visiting fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. Dr Nambiar has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, a visting fellow at the ASEAN Studies Center, Universitas Gadjah Mada and at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore. His op-eds have appeared in the Nikkei Asian Review, the Interpreter, Jakarta Post, East West Center Bulletin, East Asia Forum, New Mandala, the Edge, NST and the Sun. He is author of Sen’s Capability Approach and Institutions and four books on the Malaysian economy.