Jayant Menon is Senior Fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. Menon previously held the position of lead economist in the Office of the Chief Economist at the Asian Development Bank in Manila. Menon spent almost a decade at the Centre of Policy Studies at Monash University, and has also worked at the University of Melbourne, Victoria University and the American University in Washington, DC. Menon received his PhD in International Economics from the University of Melbourne in 1992.