Prema-chandra Athukorala is Professor of Economics Emeritus in the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, College of Asia at The Pacific at the Australian National University, fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Honorary Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, and Visiting Honorary Professor at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. His sresearch interests lie primarily in the fields of development macroeconomics, international trade and development, multinational enterprises and foreign direct investment, and international labour migration, with a specific focus on countries in the Indo-Pacific region. His publications include 11 books, 6 edited volumes, and over 200 papers in refereed journals and multi-authored values. At various times he has served as a consultant to the World Bank, ADB, ADBI, ILO, UNDP, UNIDO and ESCAP. These assignments have resulted in work on Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Kirgizstan and Mongolia.