Professor Euston Quah is Albert Winsemius Chair Professor of Economics, and Director, Economic Growth Centre (EGC) at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore and formerly Head of Economics at NTU for 15 years.

Professor Quah is a prolific and well-cited writer, having published over 100 articles in journals and lead opinion pieces in the media. He is also the author of the bestselling Asian edition of Gregory Mankiw’s leading textbook, Principles of Economics (now into its third edition in 2021), and the internationally known book Cost-Benefit Analysis, now into its sixth edition in 2021. He also wears multiple hats as Editor of the Singapore Economic Review (a Social Sciences Citation Indexed journal), President of the Economic Society of Singapore, and member of the prestigious European Academy of Sciences and Arts. As of March 2022, Professor Quah was listed in Google Scholar Profiler as among the top 10 most highly cited university economists in the area of cost-benefit analysis in the world.

Professor Quah has been invited to give distinguished talks and keynote addresses at conferences, workshops, and meetings hosted by Columbia University, Princeton University, Zhejiang University, Fudan University, Kobe University, Kyoto University, Nagoya University, Korea University, Seoul National University, National Chengchi University and the Asian Development Bank Institute in addition to receiving several distinguished overseas accolades including a Visiting Hengyi Chair Professor at Zhejiang University, China, Distinguished Fellow at the University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Eminent Visiting Professor at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam, first recipient Komai Fellow of the Hitachi Scholarship Foundation, Japan, and Distinguished Fellow of the Penang Institute, Malaysia. Closer to home, he was also an external economics reviewer and advisor to the economics programmes at the School of Business Economics (SPE), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). Professor Quah was also a grant recipient, research collaborator, and co-principal investigator with ETH Zurich-NTU and Technical University of Munich-CREATE awarded by the National Research Foundation.

Updated:: 04/11/2022 [syazmer]