Bruno Maçães

Dr. Bruno Maçães is Director of Research Analyst at Diplomat Risk Intelligence. He specialises in geopolitics, Chinese and Russian foreign policy, trade policy, and broader globalization trends.

Blake Berger

Blake Berger is a Program Officer at the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York.

Jonathan Berkshire Miller

Jonathan Berkshire Miller is an international affairs professional with expertise on security, defense and geo-economic issues in the Indo-Pacific.

Dingding Chen

Dingding Chen is the president of Intellisia Institute.

Qiheng Chen

Qiheng Chen specializes in Chinese tech policy, cybersecurity, antitrust and industrial policy.

Robert Farley

Dr. Robert Farley specializes in the organizational dynamics of the use of military force, including technology, doctrine, and law.

Anthony Fensom

Anthony Fensom is a business writer and communication consultant focussing on Australia and Asia's financial and media industries.

Franz-Stefan Gady

Senior fellow at the EastWest Institute and founding member of the Worldwide Cybersecurity Initiative.

Bonnie Girard

Bonnie Girard founded China Channel, the first independent consultancy providing due diligence for foreign companies coming into the Chinese market.

James Guild

James Guild is an expert in trade, finance, and economic development in Southeast Asia.

Umida Hashimova

Umida Hashimova works as an analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), where she concentrates on U.S. national security issues. Umida is a scholar on Central Asia’s current affairs and regularly publishes on the topic.

Richard Javad Heydarian

Richard Javad Heydarian is an Asia-based academic, author and policy adviser.

Sara Hsu

Sara Hsu is an Associate Professor of Economics at the State University of New York at New Paltz and author focusing on the Chinese economy and financial sector.

Umair Jamal

Umair Jamal is a lecturer at Forman Christian College University. His research focuses on South Asian security and politics in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Michael Kugelman

Michael Kugelman is the Asia Program deputy director and senior associate for South Asia at the Wilson Center. He focuses on the international relations between South Asia and the United States.

Joshua Kurlantzick

Joshua Kurlantzick is Senior Fellow for Southeast Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is an analyst of US-Asia relations, Southeast Asian business and politics, Chinese politics and economics, political and economic risk, and foreign investment in Asia.

Rathindra Kuruwita

Rathindra Kuruwita is a journalist and a researcher from Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Bolor Lkhaajav

Bolor Lkhaajav is a researcher specializing in Mongolia, China, Russia, Japan, East Asia, and the Americas. She holds an M.A. in Asia-Pacific Studies from the University of San Francisco.

Shafi Md Mostofa

Shafi Md Mostofa is an assistant professor of world religions and culture at the University of Dhaka and an adjunct lecturer at the University of New England, Australia.

Ankit Panda

Ankit Panda is an award-winning writer, analyst, and researcher focusing on international security, geopolitics, and economics.

Prashanth Parameswaran

Dr. Prashanth Parameswaran's research and analysis focuses on Southeast Asian political and security issues, Asian defense affairs, and U.S. foreign policy in the Asia-Pacific.

Santosh Sharma Poudel

Santosh Sharma Poudel is a faculty at the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu and a co-founder of Nepal Institute for Policy Research (NIPoRe).

Catherine Putz

Catherine (Katie) Putz is managing editor of The Diplomat.

Jeff M. Smith

Jeff M. Smith is a research fellow in the Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center, focusing on South Asia and the Indo-Pacific.

Sebastian Strangio

Sebastian Strangio is Southeast Asia editor at The Diplomat.

Kosuke Takahashi

Kosuke Takahashi is Tokyo Correspondent for Janes Defence Weekly.

Carlyle Thayer

Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales Canberra and Director of Thayer Consultancy.

Shannon Tiezzi

Shannon Tiezzi is Editor-in-Chief at The Diplomat. Her primary focus is on China, and she writes on China’s foreign relations, domestic politics, and economy.

Clint Work

Dr. Clint Work is a Nonresident Fellow with the Stimson Center’s 38 North Program. His work focuses on the Korean Peninsula, US-Korean relations, East Asia, and US foreign policy.

Grant Wyeth

Grant Wyeth is a Melbourne-based political analyst specializing in Australia and the Pacific, India and Canada.