16-01-18 RC Bangkapi - Jean-Pierre A. Verbiest and His Journey!  19/01/2018 (ดู:3735)



Join us for Lunch this coming Tuesday with a very distinguished speaker talking to us about his Asian Journey - and what a journey!


Jean-Pierre A. Verbiest is a senior economist based in Southeast Asia since over 30 years. He holds a BA in economics and finance from FUCAM in Mons (Belgium), a MSC in Econometrics from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB, Belgium) and a doctorate in economics from Oxford University (UK). He joined the United Nations Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) in Bangkok, Thailand in 1981 as a research economist, moving to the Economic Research Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Manila, the Philippines, in 1989. He held several senior positions in the ADB including Manager, Strategy and Policy Department, Assistant Chief Economist (Macro-economics and Finance) and Country Director in Viet Nam (1996-2000) and Thailand (2005-2010). In 2011-2012, he was principal consultant (ASEAN 2030 study) for the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI, Tokyo) and in 2013-2014 he was lead consultant/team leader for the ADB’s Economic Research Department diagnostic study on Myanmar. He is Policy Advisor, Mekong Institute, and a partner in West Indochina Inc. His principal research interests are macroeconomic policies in East and Southeast Asian countries, economic reforms in Myanmar and regional eco




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