Vinod Thomas

Vinod Thomas is Visiting Senior Fellow at Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, and previously Visiting Professor at National University of Singapore. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the Asian Institute of Management, Manila. Thomas was Senior Vice-President of the Independent Evaluation Group at the World Bank Group (2006-2011), and Director General of Independent Evaluation at the Asian Development Bank (2011-2016). At the World Bank, he was Chief Economist for Asia, Country Director for Brazil, and Vice President of the World Bank Institute. He has been on the Boards or Advisory Panels relating of the GEF, NDB Shanghai, CSEP India, International Evaluation Academy, among others. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago and a BA from St. Stephen's college, Delhi. He has authored 17 books including The Quality of Growth, 2000, Economic Evaluation of Sustainable Development (with Namrata Chindarkar), 2019, and Risk and Resilience in the Era of Climate Change (2023).