Question: Professor A. Selvanathan is a professor at a university that is public or private ?

 Its head of research is Professor A. Selvanathan, who served as Director of both Economic Planning Unit (EPU) of Prime Minister's Department (Malaysia) and Commonwealth Secretariat , as Advisor to United Nations and as Professor of Southern Cross University . City University is an accredited private university in Selangor, Malaysia.  It was founded in April 1984 by a group of scholars in local public and overseas universities.  Its chairman is Professor Emeritus Dato’ Dr. Mohd Sham Mohd Sani, the first Emeritus Professor and a former Vice Chancellor of National University of Malaysia.  Its head of academics is Professor Juhari Samidi, the former Dean of Accounting of Universiti Teknologi Mara.  Its programs are accredited by the Malaysian Qualifications Agency.  CityU is one of the gazetted Malaysian universities that are officially recognized by Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China.  All programs are taught in English.  It regularly invites distinguished persons to speak on its campus; past speakers include the Deputy Minister for Ministry of Higher Education (Malaysia), the Australian High Commissioner to Malaysia, the Indian High Commissioner to Malaysia, the Secretary-General of World Youth Organisation International, and professors from overseas universities. <SEP> Jeff MacKie-Mason is an American economist specializing in information, incentive-centered design and public policy.  MacKie-Mason is the University Librarian and Chief Digital Scholarship Officer of the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also a Professor in the School of Information and a Professor of Economics.  He was the Arthur W. Burks Collegiate Professor of Information and Computer Science at the School of Information and was a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan and was a Professor of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.  MacKie-Mason was the founding director of STIET, a research program for Socio-Technical Infrastructure for Electronic Transactions funded by the National Science Foundation bridging together over 60 faculty and doctoral students in economics and computer science research. <SEP> Southern Cross University (SCU) is an established Australian public university, with campuses at Lismore and Coffs Harbour in northern New South Wales, and at the southern end of the Gold Coast in Queensland. <SEP> Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a prominent public health scientist and a nationally recognized biosecurity and infectious disease expert in the United States.  Osterholm is the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota and a Regents Professor, the McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, a Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, a professor in the Technological Leadership Institute, College of Science and Engineering, and an adjunct professor in the University of Minnesota Medical School, all at the University of Minnesota.  He is also on the Board of Regents at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.