Book Launch: Return to Sri Lanka: Travels in a Paradoxical Land
13, November 2019
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Prof. Razeen Sally is an Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He is also on the Board of Advisors at the Advocata Institute and is the Director of The European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), which he co-founded in 2006.
He was on the faculty of the London School of Economics for eighteen years, where he also received his PhD. 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 focuses 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.
His academic and advisory work has taken him around the world, but, in his early forties, he felt Sri Lanka calling him back for the first time since childhood. He has spent the last decade travelling all over the island. Sri Lanka seemed like a version of paradise to Razeen Sally as a child, but conflict was soon to follow, tearing the family apart and severing their bond with Sri Lanka.
His latest book, ‘Return to Sri Lanka’ is the story of a twenty-first-century reconciliation between Sally, now an academic and political adviser, and the land of his birth.
Available for purchase: https://www.juggernaut.in/books/9789353450618
