Prakash KANNAN

Bio

Prakash Kannan, PhD, CFA, is Managing Director, Chief Economist and Head of Total Portfolio Management at GIC. He is responsible for medium-term global macro and asset allocation strategy for the firm. He also serves as a member of GIC’s Investment Management Committee and Currency Risk Management Group. Prior to GIC, he was with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia) during the Asian Financial Crisis. He has published in peer-reviewed journals such as the European Economic Review, the Journal of International Money and Finance, and the BE Journal of Macroeconomics. He has also written several Book chapters including in NBER Conference volumes and in the IMF’s World Economic Outlook. He is a Council Member and Chair of the Investment Committee of the Economic Society of Singapore, a member of the Advisory Council of OMFIF, and a member of the Investment Committee of the Singapore Indian Development Association. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).