Jonathan Pincus resides in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and is the resident curriculum advisor at the Vietnam Program’s Fulbright Economics Teaching Program (FETP). Pincus is a development economist specializing in Southeast Asia. His research has focused on issues of agrarian change, poverty, inequality, and labor markets. In addition, he has written on macroeconomic issues relating to Southeast Asia and the methodology of development economics. Prior to joining the Vietnam Program, Pincus was senior country economist, UNDP Vietnam, where he designed and implemented UNDP’s policy advisory and dialogue projects with the Vietnamese government. Before his UNDP assignment, he was a lecturer in economics and faculty chair of the Masters Program in economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He received a B.A. from Oberlin College and his M.A. and doctoral degrees from the University of Cambridge. Pincus has lived and worked in Southeast Asia for two decades, including extended assignments in Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines.