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Vikram Khanna

Vikram is a senior columist at The Straits Times, where he has worked since 2018, including as associate editor. He was associate editor at The Business Times from 1993 to 2018. Prior to joining SPH, he was at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC, from 1987 to 1993. He also served on a sub-committee of the Singapore Government’s Economic Review Committee of 2001. He is a vice-president of the Economic Society of Singapore. He studied economics at the University of Cambridge, UK.

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