Dr. Krisna Gupta is an economist who uses various types of panel data regressions and other quantitative tools to evaluate international trade and investment policies as well as Indonesian manufacturing growth. He holds a Ph.D. from Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, and two Masters's degrees in economics from Universitas Indonesia and VU University Amsterdam. In 2019, he was awarded the Hadi Soesastro Prize by the Australian government for his outstanding academic excellence in Indonesian development research.