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Antonio L Rappa, PhD (Hawaii, 1997)  works on Southeast Asian cultures, politics and economics. He is writing a book on Asian Special Forces in Southeast Asia. He is the author of “Ethnocratism: The Case for Malaysia, 1955-1995” (1997); Modernity and Consumption: Theory, Politics and the Public in Singapore and Malaysia (2002); Globalization: An Asian Perspective on Modernity and Politics in America. Singapore and New York: Marshall Cavendish (2004); and Language Policy and Modernity in Southeast Asia Kluwer Academic Press/Springer (2006) co-authored with Lionel Wee.
Chen Kang is associate professor of economics at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He received the B.Sc. from Xiamen University, the M.Sc. from Ohio University and the Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. Before joining NTU, Dr. Chen worked at the World Bank’s Socialist Economies Reform Unit and subsequently taught at the National University of Singapore. He was the Head of the Econometric Modelling Unit from 1996 to 2004 and Head of Economics Division from 1999 to 2005. He has published widely on issues relating to macroeconomic modelling, economic reform and development, and the economic role of government in professional journals including Journal of Comparative Economics, Economic System Research, European Journal of Political Economy, China Economic Quarterly, International Journal of Public Administration, Economic Modelling, and Singapore Economic Review. He is author of The Chinese Economy in Transition: Micro Changes and Macro Implications (Singapore University Press, 1995). His current research interests include public choice, agent based models, central-local relations, public policy and private sector response. Dr. Chen also served as a consultant to Asian Development Bank, Singapore Trade Development Board, Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, Singapore Tourism Board, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Housing & Development Board, Ministry of Manpower, Ministry of Finance, and several multinational corporations.
Chew Soon Beng, is Professor of Economics and Industrial Relations at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is author of Small Firms in Singapore (Oxford University Press), Trade Unionism in Singapore (McGraw Hill), Employment-Driven Industrial Relations Regimes (Avebury), Values and Lifestyles of Young Singaporeans (Prentice-Hall), and Foreign Enterprises in China: Operation and Management (in Chinese). He has also published in journals such as the Singapore Economic Review, the China Economic Review, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, and the Journal of Advances in Pacific Basin Business Economic and Finance. His current research interests include trade unionism, labour markets analysis, globalization and entrepreneurship. He has received many awards including Honorary Professorship, Institute of Legislation "Khalkh Juram", Mongolia 2001; Honorary Professorship, Moscow External University of the Humanities,1997; National Book Prize, 1996 and his paper in Journal of Enterprising Communities has been awarded Highly Commended Paper in 2009.
CHUNG, Chong Wook, a visiting professor at RSIS, is a specialist in the foreign and security affairs of the Korean peninsular, Chinese politics, and two Koreas' relations with China and Japan. With a BA in international relations from Seoul National University and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University, Dr. Chung taught at Yale and American University in the United States before returning to Korea to teach at his alma mater, Seoul National University. During his long teaching career at Seoul National University, he directed its Center for International Studies. Also, he worked in various advisory capacities for various departments of Korean government, including Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defense, and Ministry of Unification. In 1993, his academic career was interrupted as he joined the office of Korean president as the national security advisor in which capacity he handled the North Korean nuclear issue and the death of Kim Il Sung, among others. With the conclusion of the Geneva Agreed Framework in late 1994, he went to Beijing to work as Korean ambassador to China. In 1998, he came back to Korea to resume academic career, teaching at Ajou University as a distinguished professor and until recently at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University, as a visiting professor. His publications in English include Maoism and Development and Major Powers and Peace in Korea. He also contributed many articles for professional journals, international conferences, and monographic studies such as the volumes on North Korea published by the University of California, Berkeley. He was the president of the Korean association for the study of the socialist countries in the early 1990s, the largest academic organization for the Korean scholars working on the communist and socialist countries. He is a founding member of the Seoul Forum for International Affairs in Seoul.
Professor David Reisman specialises in institutional economics, political economy and public policy. His books include Social Policy in an Ageing Society (2009), Schumpeter's Market (2005), The Institutional Economy (2002) and Conservative Capitalism (1996; Chinese edition 2003). Educated at the London School of Economics, Professor Reisman holds the D.Sc.(Econ.) of the University of London. He has received a number of awards and distinctions, including the Humboldt Fellowship and the Gunnar Myrdal Prize.
Gerard Chaliand is a Visiting Professor in RSIS and he is considered since decades as a pre-eminent observer of insurgency warfare. For the past 40 years he has observed guerrilla movements in countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America, and has had close battlefield contact with African, South American, Afghan and Vietnamese guerrillas among others. Dr. Chaliand has written about 40 books, 20 of which have been translated into English. He has taught at the prestigious Ecole Nationale d'Administration as well as at the National War College in Paris. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University, UCLA and the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Chaliand was Director of the European Center for the Study of Conflicts as well as an advisor to the Center of Analysis and Planning of the French Foreign Ministry. He spent nine months in Iraq in the last five years and has been recently four times in Afghanistan as Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies (CAPS) in Kabul.
Huang Minting has been a lecturer at Language and Communication Centre of NTU since 2003. She holds a doctorate degree of Education in Applied Linguistics from the University of Leicester and a master degree of arts in English language from the National University of Singapore. Effectively bilingual, Dr. Huang has extensive experience in teaching English and Chinese language courses as well as communication skills courses in several tertiary institutes in Singapore. With keen interest in translation and interpretation, Dr.Huang has helped SIM university develop its first translation degree program. In recent years, Dr.Huang has been involved in the development of new academic writing courses at the language and communication centre of NTU. She has also developed research interest in contrastive linguistics, translation studies and the use of new technology in the teaching of academic writing.
Pradumna B. Rana is currently a Senior Fellow at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and an Adjunct Senior Fellow of RSIS. He was the Senior Director of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB's) Office of Regional Economic Integration which spearheaded the ADB's support for regional cooperation and integration in Asia. He joined the ADB in 1983 and held senior positions at the research and various operational departments. Earlier he was a Lecturer at the National University of Singapore and the Tribhuvan University (Nepal), a researcher at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, and a consultant to the World Bank in Washington D.C. He obtained his PhD from Vanderbilt University where he was a Fulbright Scholar and a Masters in Economics from Michigan State University and Tribhuvan University where he was a gold medalist. He has published widely in the areas of Asian economic development and integration, Asian financial crisis, business cycle co-movements, early warning systems of financial crisis, and policy reforms in transition economies. These include several books and articles in international scholarly journals including Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Asian Economics, World Development, Developing Economies, and Singapore Economic Review. Currently, he is co-authoring a book on South Asia: Rising to the Challenge of Globalization and co-editing books on Pan-Asian Integration: Linking East and South Asia (forthcoming Palgrave Macmillan) and National Strategies for Regional Integration (forthcoming ADB, Manila).
John Ravenhill, PhD (California, Berkeley), is Professor in the Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. He was previously Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, and has been a Visiting Professor at the International University of Japan and at the University of California, Berkeley. His recent books include Global Political Economy (editor, 2005), Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation: The Construction of Pacific Rim Regionalism (2001), The Asian Financial Crisis and the Architecture of Global Finance (co-editor, 2000), and The National Interest in a Global Era: Australia in World Affairs, 1996-2000 co-editor, 2002). His articles have appeared in many of the leading international relations journals including World Politics, International Organization, World Policy Journal, World Development, and International Affairs. He was the founding editor of the Cambridge University Press Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies series, and is on the editorial boards of Pacific Affairs, International Relations, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, and Global Economic Review. He was the first winner of the Australasian Political Studies Association's L.F. Crisp medal.
Wendy Schultz is a Visiting Senior Fellow in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. As Director of Infinite Futures: Foresight Research and Training, Dr. Schultz has over two decades of foresight practice from Honolulu to Helsinki, and Brisbane to Budapest. Most recently, she has designed and facilitated integrated foresight workshops for the Malta National Commission for Higher Education, the UK Department for International Development, the UK’s Carnegie Trust, the UK Food Ethics Council, and the UK Health and Safety Executive. She has also designed and populated environmental scanning databases for the UK Office of Science and Innovation’s Horizon Scanning Centre and the UK Department of Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra). Her conference keynotes, workshops, and publications include topics as varied as emerging issues of change drawn from her work with the UK government; the future of transport (Helkamaa Industries); the future of electronic media (for the Tomorrow Project); and the future of learning and higher education (at the World Future Society Mexico conference); among others. Dr. Schultz earned her Ph.D. in Alternative Futures (Political Science) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is a Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation; a Board Member of the Association of Professional Futurists; on the International Advisory Panel of the European Futurists Conference Lucerne, and a member of Shaping Tomorrow’s Executive Team. In 2007 the journal Foresight presented her with the Outstanding Paper Award for her article “The Cultural Contradictions of Managing Change: Using Horizon Scanning in an Evidence-Based Policy Context.”
William T. Tow is a Visiting Professor in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and Professor of International Security at the Australian National University’s Department of International Relations and a Chief Investigator for the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS). He was previously a Professor at Griffith University and at the University of Queensland and an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. He has held short-term visiting research appointments at Stanford University’s Asia/Pacific Research Center, Dickinson College and the International Institute for Strategic Studies and is a Visiting Professor at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) in Singapore from July-October 2008. He has served on the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT’s) Foreign Affairs Council, the Australian-American Fulbright Commission’s Board of Directors and was Editor of the Australian Journal of International Affairs from 2001-2007. In a career spanning well over three decades, Professor Tow has authored or edited 18 books or monographs and nearly 100 journal articles and book chapters. His major research interests are in Asian security, alliance politics, U.S. foreign and security policy toward Asia and Australian security issues. His recent book publications include: Asia-Pacific Security: US, Australia and Japan and the New Security Triangle (co-edited: Routledge, 2007); The Other Special Relationship:. The U.S. and Australia at the Start of the 21st Century (co-edited: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2007); Asia-Pacific Strategic Relations: Seeking Convergent Security (authored: Cambridge University Press, 2001) and Asia’s Emerging Regional Order: Reconciling Traditional and Human Security (co-editor: United Nations University Press, 2000). Recent articles have appeared in Asian Security, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Contemporary Security Policy, Contemporary Southeast Asia; Current History; International Relations of Asia-Pacific; Pacific Review, and Security Dialogue. Professor Tow’s current research includes directing a Security Project for the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) – a consortium of ten major universities (Australian National University, Cambridge, University of Copenhagen, ETH Zurich, National University Singapore, Oxford University, Peking University, UC Berkeley, University of Tokyo, Yale University and Zurich University) established in 2006 to collaborate on research directed toward international security theory; rising great powers and regional security architectures; strategic asymmetries and human security. An inaugural workshop on regional security architectures was convened at the ANU (in association with the Lowy Institute and the University of Sydney) in April 2008. Professor Tow is also leading CEPS research on ‘Extending Frontiers’ for regional and international security challenges and on possible Australian, regional and global responses to such challenges. He has recently completed an edited manuscript of the ‘(Asia-Pacific) regional/global nexus’ in security politics and is working on a single-authored manuscript on regional security architectures.
Dr Yeo Lay Hwee is currently working at the European Union Centre in Singapore and Senior Research Fellow at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. She is also Adjunct Research Fellow in the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies and International Fellow at the Contemporary Europe Research Centre (CERC), University of Melbourne, and teaches part time at the National University of Singapore. An international relations expert, she participates actively both in policy dialogue, research and in academic workshops and conferences. Her research interests revolve around comparative regionalism; ASEAN and EU; and the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) process. Some of her recent publications include “Asia and Europe: The Development and Different Dimensions of ASEM”; “The Eurasian Space: Far More than two Continents”; “EU-ASEAN Relations and Policy Learning”; “The ASEAN Security Community: Towards Preventive Diplomacy and Institutionalised Security Cooperation”; “Japan, ASEAN and the construction of an East Asian Community”. For her exemplary record in research and policy work in regionalism and Asia-Europe / ASEAN-EU relations, she was awarded the Nakasone Yasuhiro Award in June 2007. She had also been awarded various short term visiting fellowships and scholarships taking her to Brussels, Leiden and Aalborg.
Young Ho Kim is a Visiting Research Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and an Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations in Korea National Defense University(KNDU), Seoul, Korea. Currently serving as a member of Advisory Board to the Chief Secretary to the President for Foreign Policy and Security, Republic of Korea, he is also a Co-director of Research Committee of Korean Association of International Studies, Co-director of Editorial Committee of Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, and member of Editorial Board of Korean Journal of International Relations. His areas of teaching and research interest comprise Foreign Policy and Security Issues in Northeast Asia, Korea-U.S. Relations, International Organizations including UN and INGO’s, and International Environmental Politics. Dr. Kim received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Political Science from the Ohio State University, USA. Prior to joining the KNDU, he was a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Mershon Center for Education in National Security, Columbus, Ohio, USA, and Research Professor at the Research Institute of Unification Studies in Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Beside to KNDU, he taught in Ohio State University, Yonsei University, Ewha Women’s University, Hanyang University, Kyunghee University, and Korea Military Academy. As a Director, he also led the International Affairs Division of Research Institute of National Security Affairs(RINSA) in KNDU and served as a Managing Editor of Korean Journal of Security Affairs [formerly titled as KNDU Review] for 2004-2006. Dr. Kim co-authored several books and published and presented many papers on such topics as civil-military relations, foreign policy and security strategy of South Korea, and international relations among the Northeast Asian countries.
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