Dr Meenachi Muniandy (Jessica)

Dr Meenachi is the Senior Director at Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), overseeing ESG-related matters for the manufacturing sector. Prior to this, she was with the Ministry of Finance for 19 years, involved mostly in planning, analysing and writing various policy papers in the field of economics. Notably, she was involved in the writing of Economic Report / Economic Outlook as well as the budget speeches and fiscal stimulus packages. She was also involved in the macroeconomic forecasting and modelling. In 2020, she was seconded to the Faculty of Business and Economics, University Malaya as a Senior Lecturer for two years.

She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Economics in 1996 from University Malaya and Post-graduate Diploma in Public Administration in 2001. Meanwhile, she obtained Masters in Public Policy (Economics) from Japan in 2007 and PhD (Economics) in the field of Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Modelling from Monash University, Melbourne in 2015.