Vikram Nehru is Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and Honorary Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford University. Nehru was chair in Southeast Asian Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Nehru's career includes roles with the World Bank, serving as chief economist and director for Poverty Reduction, Economic Management and Private and Financial Sector Development in the East Asia Region. Nehru’s research and advisory work span political economy, development economics and key challenges in Southeast Asia.