Razeen Sally is Director of ECIPE, which he co-founded in 2006. He is also an Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, and Chairman of the Institute of Policy Studies, the main economic think tank in his native Sri Lanka. He was on the faculty of the London School of Economics for eighteen years, where he also received his Ph.D. He has held adjunct teaching, research, and advisory positions at universities and think tanks in the USA, Europe, Africa, and Asia. He is on the Global Agenda Council for Competitiveness of the World Economic Forum and was awarded the Hayek Medal by the Hayek Society in Germany in 2011. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.
Razeen Sally’s research and teaching focus on global trade policy and Asia in the world economy. He has written on the WTO, FTAs, and on different aspects of trade policy in Asia. He has also written on the history of economic ideas, especially the theory of commercial policy.