Daani is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Business and Economics, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and a Senior Economist at the EU-ERA. He is also the Managing Director for the Review of Labour Market Policy (RLMP), official journal for EU-ERA.
He studied economics in UPM and obtained his PhD at the University of Sydney, Australia in 2018. His research mostly related to application of economic wide modelling for sustainability analysis that portrays an inclusive policy making in term of economic, social and environment.
Recently, he focuses more on labour market analysis pertaining to external market impact, regional labour market dynamics, productivity and growth that employs macroeconomic models. He also looks into experimental research that studies on people well-being and psychological behaviour of income-based vulnerable groups.