Prof. Dato’ Dr. Rajah Rasiah

PROF DATO’ DR RAJAH RASIAH obtained his doctorate in economics from Cambridge University in 1992, and served as a fellow at Harvard University in 2014. He was Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business at UNIMAS in 1999-2000, and at the Faculty of Economics and Administration at University of Malaya in 2009–2010 and 2013–2014. He is the Executive Director of the Asia-Europe Institute at Universiti Malaya and holds professorial fellow positions at the Centre for Resilience and Sustainable Development, Cambridge University and the Technology Management and Development Centre in Oxford University. Among his prestigious awards include the Celso Furtado Prize for advancing the frontiers of Social Science thought (Economics) from the World Academy of Sciences in 2015, the Merdeka Prize under the category of scholastic achievement in 2018 from the Merdeka Prize Committee, and Robert McNamara Award by the World Bank in 1993 in support of research on the economics of innovation. He was awarded the Distinguished Professor of Economics Position by the Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia in 2017.