Akbar Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at the American University, School of International Affairs, in Washington D.C.
Ishtiaq Ahmed is Professor of Political Science and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore.
Retired General Jose Almonte was former National Security Adviser to President Fidel Ramos of the Philippines.
Vinod Anand is a Senior Research Fellow at the United Service Institute of India.
Aris Ananta is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Alex Au, a Singaporean, runs his own businesses, but is also a frequent social commentator and gay activist. He maintains a popular local blog called Yawning Bread (www.yawningbread.org).
Kanti Bajpai is an expert on India's security and a regular commentator in the Indian media.
Bantarto Bandoro is chief editor of The Indonesia Quarterly, a bulletin published by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta, Indonesia. He is also a lecturer in the International Relations Postgraduate Studies Program at the University of Indonesia, Jakarta.
Sanchita Basu Das is a Research Associate with Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Amita Batra is a Senior Fellow at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) in New Delh, India.
Heda Bayron is Senior Press Officer at the Asia Society in New York. Prior to joining Asia Society in September, she reported on Asian political and financial issues (including the 1997 crisis) from Hong Kong.
Jagdish Bhagwati is University Professor at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council of Foreign Relations.
Kerry Brown is an Associate Fellow of the Asia Program at the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
Pavin Chachavalpongpun is a Visiting Research Fellow at the ASEAN Studies Centre, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore.
Bidyut Chakrabarthy is Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi, India.
Sreeram Chaulia is a researcher on international affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship in Syracuse, New York.
Wong Chin Huat reads electoral system and party politics at the University of Essex, and teaches journalism at Monash University (Sunway Campus - Malaysia).
Frank Ching is a Hong-Kong based commentator.
Terence Chong is a Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.
Chow Kwok Ping is Assistant Professor of Government and Public Administration at the University of Macau.
John F. Copper is the Stanley J. Buckman Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the author of a number of books on China and Taiwan, including the recently published, Playing with Fire: The Looming War with China Over Taiwan (Praeger: 2006).
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and former editor of the Indian newspaper, The Statesman.
Asghar Ali Engineer is the Chairman of the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism in Mumbai, India.
Eric Teo Chu Cheow, a business consultant and strategist, is a Council Member of the Singapore Institute for International Affairs (SIIA) and teaches at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS).
Brian Farrell, a former Canadian soldier, is the Deputy Head of the Department of History, National University of Singapore.
David Fullbrook is an independent researcher and writer on Asian affairs.
Dr Chen Gang is Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore.
Sumit Ganguly is a Professor of Political Science and Director of Research of the Center on American and Global Security at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Fawaz A. Gerges, a Carnegie Scholar and Visiting Professor at the American University in Cairo is the author of "Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy". He holds the Christian Johnson chair in Middle East and International Affairs at Sarah Lawrence College.
Gerald Giam is the deputy editor of The Online Citizen (theonlinecitizen.com), a popular news and commentary website based in Singapore. He blogs at singaporepatriot.blogspot.com.
Harold Gould is a Visiting Scholar in the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Virginia. He latest book is entitled, "Sikhs, Swamis, Students and Spies: The Rise of the Indian Lobby in the United States, 1900-1946" (Sage: 2006).
Rohan Gunaratna is a specialist of the global threat environment. He is the head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and author of Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror (Columbia University Press), an international bestseller.
Vedi Hadiz is an Associate Professor with the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore.
S.P. Harish is an Associate Research Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University.
Russell Heng is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, where he researches on civil society issues.
Denis Hew is a Fellow and Coordinator of the Regional Economics Studies programme at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Isthiaq Hossain is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, International Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur.
Takashi Inoguchi is Professor of International Relations at the Graduate School of Public Policy in Chou University, Japan.
Jayanthi Iyengar is former Financial Editor and Chief of Bureau of The Economic Times, one of India's largest selling dailies. She is now a transnationally published freelance journalist.
Zacki Jabbar is a News Editor at The Island, a leading English language daily in Sri Lanka. He has also served as the Business Editor of the newspaper.
Zahid Javali was formerly City Editor of MiD DAY, a daily tabloid in Bangalore, India.
Robin Jeffrey is the Director of the Research School for Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University.
Pankaj Jha is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi.
Wang Jianwei is the Eugene Katz Letters and Science Distinguished Professor of at the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. He is currently a visiting scholar at Center for American Studies, Fudan University in Shanghai.
Umar Juoro is Senior Fellow at the Habibie Center in Jakarta. He was formerly assistant to former Indonesian President B J Habibie from 1998-1999.
Gurmeet Kanwal is the Director of the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), a New Delhi based think-tank.
Ooi Kee Beng is a Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore. He is the author of, The Reluctant Politician: Tun Dr Ismail and his Time (ISEAS, 2006).
K Kesavapany is the Director of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. He was unanimously chosen as the first Chairman of the WTO Council in 1995.
Nazery Khalid is a Senior Research Fellow at the Maritime Institute of Malaysia.
Khriezo Yhome is an Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) in New Delhi, India.
Phar Kim Beng is a consultant to Waseda University in Japan on Southeast Asian matters.
Chin Kin Wah is Deputy Director of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore.
P.R. Kumaraswamy is Associate Professor of International Studies at the Centre for West Asian and African Studies (CWAAS), Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India.
Neeta Lal is an Indian columnist whose pieces appear in 21 national and international publications that include The India Today Group, The Times of India and The Indian Express.
Marie Lall is a lecturer at the Institute of Education, University of London. She is currently on a fellowship at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), Singapore.
Lawrence Prabhakar is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Madras Christian College, Chennai and Adjunct Professor, Department of Geopolitics, Manipal University, Manipal.
Justin Liang is Projects and Outreach Manager at the East-West Center in Washington, USA, where he edits the Asia Pacific Bulletin.
Liew Chin Tong is Executive Director of the Kuala Lumpur-based Research for Social Advancement (REFSA) and a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a Malaysian political party.
Catherine Lim is a Singapore-based writer.
Dr. Robyn Lim is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland.
Lim Teck Ghee is a leading Malaysian policy analyst. He was formerly Director of the Center for Public Policy Studies, ASLI, a regional think-tank based in Kuala Lumpur. Prior to this, he was Regional Advisor on Poverty and Social Development with UNESCAP and Senior Social Scientist at the World Bank.
Joshua Margolis is a MA candidate at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.
Verghese Mathews, former Singapore ambassador to Cambodia, is a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Masahiro Matsumura is Professor of International Politics of the Faculty of Law and Political Science at St. Andrews University (Momoyama Gakuin Daigaku) in Osaka, Japan.
Tin Maung Maung Than is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Maya Mirchandani is the Foreign Editor at New Delhi Television (NDTV).
Joergen Oerstroem Moeller is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, and an Adjunct Professor at the Copenhagen Business School.
Ann Marie Murphy is an Asia Society associate fellow and Assistant Professor at the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy & International Relations, Seton Hall University.
Chandra Muzaffar is the President of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST).
Deepak Nair is a Research Associate at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad is a Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Selangor State Assemblyman. At 26, he was the youngest elected representative in the 2008 Malaysian General Election. He blogs at www.niknazmi.com.
Farish Noor is a researcher at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies in Berlin, a German research institute devoted to an interdisciplinary and comparative study of the Middle East, Africa, South and Southeast Asia.
Evi Nurvidya Arifin is Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Pramit Pal Chaudhuri is Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society, New York and a Senior Correspondent of the Hindustan Times, a major Indian daily.
Arvind Panagariya is Professor of Economics at Columbia University.
Nischal Pandey was Executive Director of the Kathmandu based Institute of Foreign Affairs, and until recently, Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies.
Lam Peng Er is a Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. He was invited as an election observer for the 2008 Taiwan Presidential Election.
Thitinan Pongsudhirak is Director of the Institute of Security and International Studies, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.
Vladimir Putin is the President of the Russian Federation.
Azly Rahman, a Malaysian, is an America-based educator, who also a columnist for two of Asia's leading online portals, Malaysiakini and Malaysia-Today. He writes mainly on Malaysia's culture of hyper-modernity.
Ramkishen S. Rajan is an Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy, George Mason University.
P.Ramasamy was formerly Professor of Political Science at the National University of Malaysia.
Dipinder S Randhawa is a Fellow at the Saw Centre for Financial Studies, National University of Singapore.
Anthony Reid is Director of the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore and author of several books on Aceh's history.
Michael Richardson, former Asia editor of the International Herald Tribune, is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Simon Roughneen is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in the International Herald Tribune, The Irish Times, Business Day, ISN Security Watch and Asia Times.
Varun Sahni is Professor of International Politics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Vijay Sakhuja is Visiting Senior Reseach Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. A former Indian Navy officer, he received his doctorate from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Lorraine Salazar is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and an Assistant Professor at the University of the Philippines.
Razeen Sally is the Director of the European Centre for International Political Economy in Brussels, and on the faculty of the London School of Economics. He is also Senior Associate Fellow at ISEAS.
Johan Saravanamuttu is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore and was the former Dean (Research) at the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM).
Rahul Sen is a Fellow of the Regional Economics Studies programme at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Terenjit Sevea is a Research Associate at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Rodolfo C. Severino was the former Secretary-General of ASEAN.
Barkha Shah is a UAE-based commentator on Pakistani affairs. She has an MPhil (Development Studies) from the University of Cambridge.
A B Shamsul is Director of the Institute of the Malay World and Civilisation (ATMA) and Professor at University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in Bangi, Malaysia.
Heng Siam-Heng is a Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.
Kamal Sidhu is the Assistant Editor of Foreign Affairs, a Council on Foreign Relations publication.
Rajiv Sikri was former Secretary (East) at the Indian Ministry of External Affairs.
Edmund Sim is a Singapore-based lawyer with Hunton and Williams, an international trade practice group with offices in Washington, Beijing and Singapore.
Aparna Shivpuri is a Research Associate at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore.
Daljit Singh is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore.
Siddharth Srivastava is a New-Delhi based journalist.
Arthur Stockwin is Emeritus Director, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies; and Emeritus Fellow, St Anthony's College, University of Oxford.
Ian Storey is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore.
N V Subramanian is the Editor of NEWSInsight (www.newsinsight.net), an Indian public affairs magazine. He recently published his second novel, Courtesan of Storms (Har-Anand: New Delhi, 2008).
Kate Sullivan is a Phd candidate specialising in Indian foreign policy at the Australian National University.
Andrew Symon, an Australian, is Managing Director of Menas Asia. In Australia, was an advisor in the Australian parliament and a ministerial speechwriter.
William Tow is Professor of International Relations at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University.
Michael Vatikiotis is the Singapore-based Regional Representative of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. He has followed Indonesian affairs closely for two decades. He is also the author of, Indonesian Politics under Suharto (Routledge: 1998).
Julkipli Wadi is an Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of the Philippines.
Xia Liping is Director of the Department of Strategic Studies, Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), and General-Secretary of the same institute.
Imran Imtiaz Shah Yacob is a lawyer based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Hui Yew-Foong is a Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore.
You Ji is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, The University of New South Wales. He has published widely on China's strategic and military affairs including two seminal books, In Quest of High Tech Power: The Modernisation of China's Military in the 1990s, and The Armed Forces of China.
Yuan Jing-Dong is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and an Associate Professor of International Policy Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
Maung Zarni is a Visiting Research Fellow (2006-9) at the Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), University of Oxford. He was the founder of the Free Burma Coalition.
Zhang Yongjin is the Director of the New Zealand Asia Institute at the University of Auckland.
