Amitendu Palit

Amitendu Palit is an economist specializing in international trade and investment policies, geoeconomics, Asian connectivity, regional political economy, and the Indian economy. He has been with ISAS in NUS since April 2008. Amitendu is an Associate of the Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI), Milan, Italy, as a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the ISPI Asia Centre. He is also an Adjunct Faculty with the Centre for WTO Studies, Delhi, India. He was also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Trade and Investment.

 

Earlier, Amitendu worked for several years in the Ministry of Finance, India, and in the Ministries of Industry and Civil Supplies. He handled macroeconomic policies, including trade, investment, industrial development, SMEs, entrepreneurship, and futures trading. He wrote Annual Economic Surveys and participated in annual budgetary consultations. He was on Advisory Committees of the Planning Commission and the ILO. He is Senior Research Fellow (Honorary) at the Wong Centre for the Study of MNCs and Adviser for Athena Infonomics.

 

Amitendu’s research includes trade policies, trade agreements, regional connectivity and its political economy, comparative economics of China and India, and India's public policies. His books include 'Globalisation Impacts: Countries, Institutions and COVID19’ (2022, Springer, edited), ’Seeking Middle Ground: Land, Markets and Public Policy' (2019, OUP, co-edited), and several more. He has published in several peer-reviewed academic journals and sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals.

 

Amitendu is a columnist for Financial Express and writes for China Daily and East Asia Forum. He is an expert for BBC, Bloomberg News, Channel News Asia, CNBC, ABC, CGTN, Doordarshan (India), and All-India Radio. He is a visiting faculty for several management and business schools and a consultant for the Commonwealth Secretariat, ILO, UNDP, Copenhagen Consensus and IIFT India. An Indian national, he is married to Parama Sinha Palit and is based in Singapore.