Current Visiting Researchers

As of 21 April 2009

• Prabir De - India
• Hiro Ito - Japan
• Anita Doraisami - Australia

Prabir De

Prabir De is a Visiting Researcher at the ADB Institute. He is a Fellow (Associate Professor) at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi. RIS is an autonomous policy think tank, set up by the Government of India. He has over 18 years research experience in academia, and the public and private sectors. De is a member of the Global Facilitation Partnership of World Bank and the International Navigation Association, Brussels. He was a visiting research scholar at the Korea Institute of International Economic Policy. De has carried out independent research studies for several multilateral development organizations including the Asian Development Bank and the ADB Institute. He has served as a resource person in India–Japan, India–Korea, and India–China joint study groups for economic partnership and free trade agreements.

De has a Masters in economics from Calcutta University, and a Ph.D. in economics from Jadavpur University, Calcutta. He has contributed several research papers to international journals and written books on trade and development. De works primarily in the field of international economics and has research interests in international trade and development issues, trade facilitation and trade costs, trade in services, infrastructure and regional cooperation, and maritime economics. He is also the managing editor of South Asia Economic Journal, published by Sage. De is originally from Calcutta, but now lives in New Delhi.

Current Research in ADBI
Managing Cross-border Infrastructure in Asia: Role of Governance for Institutions and Policies

Hiro Ito

Hiro Ito is a Visiting Scholar at the Asian Development Bank Institute. He is Associate Professor of Economics at Portland State University (PSU), Oregon, United States. He is also a Visiting Professor of Economics and Finance at Atkinson School of Management, Willamette University, Oregon. Before joining PSU, he was a visiting instructor at Claremont McKenna College, California. He was also a research associate at Economic Strategy Institute, a policy think tank, in Washington, D.C.

His areas of focus are financial development, financial globalization, and macroeconomic inter-linkages between countries. His recent research has been focusing on development of the emerging market economies in Asia and how these economies can deal with the current waves of globalization while furthering regional economic and/or financial integration. He has recently published in Journal of Asian Economics, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, and Review of International Economics.

Ito received his Ph.D. in economics from University of California, Santa Cruz, an M.A. in international relations from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., and a B.A. in law from Waseda University, Tokyo.

Anita Doraisami

Anita Doraisami is currently visiting scholar at the Asian Development Bank Institute. She taught economics for several years at the Department of Economics, Monash University, Australia. She has been a consultant for various organizations including the Asian Development Bank, USAID, UNRISD, and SIDA and has published widely on macroeconomic policy issues.

More recently she was a consultant economist to the International Monetary Fund Training Institute in Singapore, advisor to the government of Abu Dhabi, and the macroeconomic adviser to the Ministry of Finance, Timor-Leste. She completed her undergraduate degrees in Melbourne and obtained a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Cambridge.

Current Research in ADBI
The global financial crisis: counter cyclical fiscal policy issues and challenges in selected DMCs.