Dr Yougesh Khatri

Associate Fellow, Global Economy and Finance Programme (based in Singapore)

Biography

Yougesh’s career spans three decades in academia, international organizations, and the financial sector. His work and research interests span global macroeconomics, economic development, fintech and asset management.

After leaving LSE in 1998, he spent the next 11 years with the IMF (based in Washington D.C., Jakarta and Tokyo). In 2010, he moved to the private sector, initially joining Nomura Securities in Singapore before beginning at GIC in 2011. Between 2015-18, he ran his own consultancy and developed and taught the first International Elective at Imperial Business School.

In addition to being an associate fellow at Chatham House, Yougesh is also an associate professor of practice at Singapore’s Nanyang Business School, academic director for the Nanyang Fellows MBA, senior international advisor to the Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Economic Governance or PROSPERA, a member of the OMFIF Advisory Council in the UK, member of the academic council of the Global FinTec Institute in Singapore, and a member of the Stewardship Discussion Circle of Singapore’s Stewardship Asia Centre, among other positions.

Yougesh holds a PhD from the University of Reading, and did his post-doctoral research at the University of Cambridge. He holds a BSc from the London School of Economics.
 

Past experience

2015-18Alphanomiks (consulting for GIC, ADB and AIPEG) and investing
2011-14Head of economics, (co-head of economics and capital markets), GIC (formerly known as Government of Singapore Investment Corporation)
2010-11Head of ASEAN economics, Nomura Securities Ltd, Singapore
1998-2009Senior economist/resident representative, IMF (Washington DC, Jakarta, Tokyo)
1995-98Centre for Research into Economics and Finance in Southern Africa, London School of Economics, UK
1993-94; 1995-98Lecturer and research associate, Department of Management, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
1994-95Post-doctoral research, Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, UK