Sultan Nazrin Shah is the Ruler of Perak and the Deputy King of Malaysia. He is Chancellor of the University of Malaya, and an Honorary Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, Magdalene College, Cambridge, and St Edmund's College, Cambridge. He holds a BA (Hons) degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford; A Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; and a PhD in Political Economy and Government, also from Harvard University.
Sultan Nazrin oversees and provides direction for the Economic History of Malaya project (www.ehm.my) and is the author of Charting the Economy: Early 20th Century Malaya and Contemporary Malaysian Contrasts (2017) and Striving for Inclusive Development: From Pangkor to a Modern Malaysian State (2019), both published by OUP Malaysia.