Kumaraswamy Vela Velupillai is a retired Emeritus Professor, living in Stockholm, Sweden. He was, formerly the John E. Cairnes Professor of Economics at NUI Galway, Ireland, a Professore di Chiara Fama in the department of economics at the University of Trento, Italy – from both tenured posts he opted for early retirement. He was, for a very short period, also (a non-tenured) Distinguished Professor of Economics at NSSR, in New York.