Distinguished Professor Dato’ Dr Rajah Rasiah focuses his interest in technology and international development, specifically in Industrial Policy and Innovation. His policy?oriented research in Asia, Africa, and Latin America has contributed to the conceptualisation of technology, its link to development, and methodologies designed to capture clustering, technological capabilities, and industrial policies. He has disseminated his findings through over 300 peer-reviewed journals and 30 books. His Scopus H-index is 21 with 1801 citations. His research output has served as the basis for guiding industrial policy in developing economies such as Cambodia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Vietnam and Timor?Leste. His expertise is sought after by ministries to provide advice on industrial development and human capital through various projects conducted for the EPU, Malaysian Institute of Economic Research, Ministry of Welfare, Malaysian Trade Union Congress, as well as the State Governments of Perak and Penang. Distinguished Professor Dato’ Dr Rajah is well?versed in the science?policy interface. He has contributed to trade in technology to MOSTI, helped in establishing Malaysia’s foreign policy direction for MOFA and setting up the Science Park in Mukah, Sarawak. At the international level, he provided advisory service to several United Nations agencies and the World Bank, International Labour Organisation, the World Intellectual Property Organisation, Asian Development Bank and the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia. He also serves as a member of the Malaysian Productivity Corporation Social Sciences and Humanities, MITI (2017?2022) and Energy Commission of Malaysia (2018?2020). He has also contributed to ASM. During his term as ASM Associate, he has contributed to two reports of the ASM, i.e. the Economics and Finance chapter of the Envisioning Malaysia in 2050 (2015?2018) and the Economics Chapter of the National Science, Technology and Innovation Infrastructure Report (2017?2018). He is also involved as a member of the Task Force on Climate Impacts and Adaptation of the EPU Study on Water Sector Transformation 2040. Distinguished Professor Dato’ Dr Rajah was conferred Distinguished Professor of Economics in 2017. He has received many accolades and recognition due to his academic excellence and knowledge contribution. Among them are Advanced Micro Devices (1990), Robert McNamara?World Bank (1993), Friedrich?Ebert Stiftung Award (1998), Brain Gain Award from Government of Malaysia (2004), Celso Furtado Prize from the World Academy of Sciences (2014), Merdeka (Independence) Award (2018) and Distinguished Fellow for Institute of Capital Markets Research, Malaysia (2019).