Rajiv Biswas

Rajiv Biswas has extensive experience as a professional economist, including working as Executive Director & Asia-Pacific Chief Economist for IHS Markit/S&P Global Market Intelligence. His experience also includes working as Director for Southeast Asia for The Economist Group and as Executive Director for Asia-Pacific Country Risk for UBS and as a consultant for the United Nations. His experience also includes working as a Senior Economist for the Commonwealth Secretariat.

Rajiv is a graduate of the London School of Economics, for his B.Sc.Econ. (Hons) and received his M.Sc. and D.I.C. from Imperial College, London University. Rajiv has published widely on a range of economic, trade and investment related topics, with over 100 published articles. He has frequently spoken at international conferences on the global and Asia-Pacific economic outlook, including at World Economic Forum and Euromoney events as well as at United Nations conferences. He has often appeared on international TV programs, including for the BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, DW, Channel News Asia, CNN and Al Jazeera TV. 

Rajiv is the author of “Future Asia“, “Asian Megatrends” and “Emerging Markets Megatrends“, published by Springer/Palgrave Macmillan.