ASEAN and Regionalism in East Asia
Part of the launch of the new ASEAN Studies Center at American University

Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary-General, Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Surin Pitsuwan is the current Secretary-General of ASEAN. He served as a member of the Thai parliament for seven consecutive terms starting in 1986. Also in 1986, Dr. Pitsuwan was appointed Secretary to the speaker of the Thai House of Representatives. Subsequent appointments include Assistant Secretary to the Minister of the Interior, Deputy Foreign Affairs Ministe and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He is currently a member of the international advisory boards of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Crisis Group, and is also a member of the Commission of the Social Dimension of Globalization, the Board of Trustees of the Asia Foundation and the International Academic Advisor of the Centre for Islamic Studies at Oxford University. Dr. Pitsuwan was a member of the Wise Men group organized under the auspices of the Henri Dunant Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue which advised the peace negotiations between the Acehnese Independence Movement and the Government of the Republic of Indonesia. He has worked as a columnist for the Nation Review and the Bangkok Post, and as a correspondent for the ASEAN Forecast. Dr. Pitsuwan taught at Thammasat University from 1975 to 1986, where he was appointed Assistant Vice Rector for Academic Affairs. Betweenn 1983 and 1984, he was a congressional fellow in the office of U.S. Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro and the Senate Republican Conference. Dr. Pitsuwan received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Alice Ba, Director, East Asian Studies, University of Delaware

Alice Ba specializes in the international relations, politics and regionalisms of East and Southeast Asia, in addition to international relations theory. Professor Ba's current and recent research focuses on Southeast Asia, China and the United States in East Asia; the politics and processes of socialization and persuasion; East and Southeast Asian regional organizations; and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. She teaches courses on Southeast Asian politics and world relations, Chinese politics and foreign policy, international relations and international relations theory. Her most recent book was (Re)Negotiating East and Southeast Asia: Regions, Regionalisms, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Professor Ba currently serves as the director of the East Asian Studies program at the University of Delaware. She earned her Ph.D. in Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia.

Mely Caballero-Anthony, Head, Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

Mely Caballero-Anthony is an associate professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and the head of its Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies. She is also the Secretary General of the newly-established Consortium on Non-Traditional Security Studies in Asia. Her research interests include regionalism and regional security in the Asia-Pacific; multilateral security cooperation; politics and international relations in ASEAN; conflict prevention and management; and human security. She also lectures regularly on special topics at the SAFTI Military Institute's Command and Staff College, the Singapore Police Academy and the Civil Defense College. Her current publications, both single-authored and co-edited, include Understanding Non-Traditional Security in Asia: Dilemmas in Securitization and Studying Non-Traditional Security in Asia: Trends and Issues. Professor Anthony is also on the editorial boards of The Pacific Review and Global Responsibility to Protect.

Paul Evans, Director, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia

Paul Evans is at the director of the University of British Columbia's Institute of Asian Research. He has previously worked at Harvard University's Asia Center, the Liu Institute for Global Issues and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Dr. Evans' most recent publication is The Asia-Pacific Security Lexicon with David Capie. His current writing focuses on East Asian regionalism and Canada's Asia policy. He has served as a co-chair of the Canadian member committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in Asia Pacific and CSCAP's North Pacific Working Group. Dr. Evans was the founding director of the Canadian Consortium on Human Security. He earned his Ph.D. at Dalhousie University.

Hiro Katsumata, Assistant Professor, Waseda University

Hiro Katsumata is an assistant professor at the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University. He specializes in ASEAN and Asia-Pacific regionalism. Professor Katsumata is the author of ASEAN's Cooperative Security Enterprise: Norms and Interests in the ASEAN Regional Forum, and the co-editor of People's ASEAN and Governments' ASEAN, as well as a number of articles. He was awarded first prize by Prime Minister Abe of Japan in the Liberal Democratic Party foreign policy essay competition of 2006/2007. Professor Katsumata earned his Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham.

Amitav Acharya is a professor of international relations at the School of International Service at American University, as well as the chair of the university's ASEAN Studies Center. He has previously worked as both a professor and the director of the Centre for Governance and International Affairs at the University of Bristol. At Nanyang Technological University, he was the deputy director and the head of research of the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies. Professor Acharya's publications number over 20 books and 200 journal and magazine articles. His most recent book is Whose Ideas Matter?: Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism. Professor Acharya earned his Ph.D. at Murdoch University.

Satu Limaye, Director, East-West Center in Washington

Satu Limaye is the director of the East-West Center in Washington. Immediately prior to being appointed, he worked with the Institute for Defense Analyses as a member of the research staff. Previously, he served as the director of the Honolulu-based Asia-Pacific Center for Securities Studies' research and publications division. Dr. Limaye was an Abe Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy's International Forum for Democratic Studies, a Luce Scholar and the head of programs on South Asia at the Japan Institute of International Affairs. He has also written, edited and co-edited numerous books, monographs and studies, including US, Australia and Japan and the New Security Triangle; Japan in a Dynamic Asia; Special Assessment: The Asia-Pacific and the United States, 2004-2005; Religious Radicalism in South Asia; and Special Assessment: Asia's China Debate. Dr. Limaye earned his Ph.D. at Oxford University's Magdalene College as a Marshall Scholar.