Galle Literary Festival

Razeen Sally

Author

Razeen Sally is a Sri Lankan-British writer. His latest book, a travel memoir, is Return to Sri Lanka: Travels in a Paradoxical Island. He was a visiting associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, and previously taught at the London School of Economics, where he received his PhD. He was chairman of the Institute of Policy Studies, the main economic-policy think tank in Sri Lanka, and senior adviser to the minister of finance. He has been director of the European Centre for International Political Economy, a global-economy think tank in Brussels, and has held visiting research and teaching positions in the USA, France, Australia and Hong Kong. He was also chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Competitiveness. He is currently writing a travel book on the Buddhist world, to be published by Simon and Schuster.

 

Top Titles

  • New Frontiers in Free Trade (2008)
  • Return to Sri Lanka: Travels in a Paradoxical Island (2019)

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