Prasenjit K. Basu is an economist by profession and a historian by passion. His book, "Asia Reborn" won the Best First Book award (non-fiction) at the Tata Literature Live! Mumbai LitFest, 2018. His new book, "India Reborn" has just been published.

PK Basu was Chief Economist for SE Asia & India at Credit Suisse First Boston and Chief Asia Economist at Daiwa Securities for 5 years each. He was also Director of Asian Macroeconomics at UBS, Director of the Asia Service at Wharton Econometrics, CEO of Maybank Kim Eng Research Pte Ltd, board director of Tata Capital Pte Ltd and Macquarie Malaysia Bhd., and the first Chief Economist at Khazanah Nasional Bhd. He has written Op-Eds for the New York Times, Financial Times, ToI, The Statesman, New Straits Times, India Today, and has been a frequent expert commentator on the BBC, CNBC, CNN, TimesNow, RepublicTV, BloombergTV and Channel News Asia. He was the founding president of Singapore's Tagore Society (2004-20) and India Club (2006-2019).