Siddhartha Basu is a Policy Economist at the International Growth Centre (IGC), where he works for the State Fragility initiative, with a particular focus on private sector development and the IGC's engagements in Myanmar. He was previously an IGC Country Economist based out of Myanmar. Before joining the IGC, he was an Economist at Mekong Economics, a development consulting firm specialising in the monitoring and evaluation of donor-funded projects. He holds an MRes in Economics from the University of Bristol, an MSc in Economics from the University of Manchester, and a BSc in Economics from the University of Nottingham.