Vikram Nehru is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and Honorary Fellow in Exeter College, Oxford University. Between 2016 and 2023, he was Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence at SAIS, teaching courses on political economy and development economics with a focus on East, South, and Southeast Asia. Between 2011 and 2016, he served as the Chair in Southeast Asian Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, Nehru worked at the World Bank, including in several senior management positions. His last position there was Chief Economist and Director for Poverty Reduction, Economic Management, and Private and Financial Sector Development for East Asia and the Pacific. In this capacity, he advised East Asian governments on economic and governance issues, including macroeconomic management, public sector and public financial management, financial and private sector development, sovereign debt management and debt restructuring, and poverty reduction. His articles have appeared in numerous journals, he has contributed to several books, and he has written many op-eds for leading newspapers, journals, and think tanks.