Altaf Virani

Altaf Virani is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Monash University, Indonesia. He holds a PhD in public policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

He has previously taught in the School of Humanities and Behavioural Sciences at the Singapore University of Social Sciences and was a visiting Fox International Fellow at the MacMillan Centre for International and Area Studies at Yale University.

Dr Virani has a diverse academic background and extensive experience of consulting and working with governments, academic institutions, community-based organisations and international agencies, including the World Bank, ILO, IDRC and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for developing, implementing and evaluating field action research projects in the health sector in India.

He specialises in public policy and public administration and has a keen interest in health policy and health systems. His interests are centred on public sector reform and the challenges of public service delivery in resource-poor settings, transitional economies and non-Western contexts, particularly South and Southeast Asia, touching on themes of policy design, dynamics of policy change, performance management, market-based governance and quasi markets, collaborative governance,  and public-private partnership, management control and decision-support systems in policy and planning, knowledge translation and the equity effects of public policy.

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