Prasenjit K Basu is the author of Asia Reborn: A Continent Rises From the Ravages of Colonialism and War to a New Dynamism (Aleph, 2017). He has served as chief economist for SE Asia & India at Credit Suisse First Boston, director of the Asia Service at Wharton Econometrics, chief global economist at Khazanah Nasional Berhad, and chief Asia economist at Daiwa Securities.