Dr Sanjaya Baru, media advisor in the Prime Minister's Office and former chief editor of The Financial Express, will be joining the faculty of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and the Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore, from August 1.
He will be taking up a two-year stint.
Dr Baru, an economist by training, was appointed media advisor in May 2004, soon after Dr Manmohan Singh became prime minister.
Dr Baru and Dr Singh struck up a close relationship when the latter was finance minister in 1991; in fact, when Dr Singh resigned from Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao's Cabinet over the stock exchange scam in the 1990s, it was Dr Baru who broke the story.
Dr Baru's book -- his third, incidentally -- Strategic Consequences of India's Economic Performance -- published in 2006 received tremendous buzz, with critics lauding it.
