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.