Paresh Kumar Narayan is a Professor at Monash Business School. He is the President of the Asia-Pacific Applied Economics Association, Editor-in-Chief of Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, and Managing Editor of Bulletin of Monetary Economics and Banking. Paresh is also a Distinguished Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, and an adjunct Professor in several universities around the world.

Paresh’s research interests are in Applied Econometrics and Financial Markets. He has published over 380 papers in international refereed journals and has the distinguished title of a high cited researcher over 5 consecutive years (2017-2021), with an h-index of 88. He is ranked 544 by Stanford University amongst 9 million researchers globally.

Professor Narayan is a consultant to multiple organisations, including, Bank Indonesia, Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Asian Development Bank, Development Bank Institute, Commonwealth Secretariat, AusAID, South Pacific Commission, Forum Secretariat, UNDP, ILO, Solomon Island National Provident Fund, Central Bank of Solomon Islands, USP, and, Economic Research Institute of ASEAN (ERIA).