I am a trained economist with 13 years experience in IMF, the World Bank, and ADB. For a large part of my career, I have focused my policy and research works in international economy with a focus on capital flow. However, for the past three years, I have been heavily involved in the area of improving national and local competitiveness. In particular, the focus has been on improving the aspect of macro economy and micro economy of competitiveness. For macro economy, the policy and research works involves on diversifying and sophisticating products that have comparative advantage. On the micro side, such works entail providing an enable environment for more private sector development throug...