Razeen Sally is the Director of the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), which he co-founded in 2006. He is also an Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, and Chairman of the Institute of Policy Studies, the main economic think tank in his native Sri Lanka.

Dr. Sally was a faculty of the London School of Economics for eighteen years, from where he also received his Ph.D. He has held adjunct teaching, research and advisory positions at universities and think tanks in the US, in Europe, Africa and Asia.

Dr. Sally is on the Global Agenda Council for Competitiveness of the World Economic Forum, and was awarded the Hayek Medal by the Hayek Society, in 2011. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society; his research and teaching focuses on global trade policy and Asia in the world economy. He has written on the WTO, FTAs, and on different aspects of trade policy in Asia, besides also on the history of economic ideas, especially the theory of commercial policy.