Dr Yougesh Khatri

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.