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Richard A. Bitzinger is a Senior Fellow with the S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies, where his work focuses on military and defense issues relating to the Asia-Pacific region, including the challenges of defense transformation in the Asia-Pacific, regional military modernization activities, and local defense industries, arms production, and weapons proliferation. Mr. Bitzinger is the author of Towards a Brave New Arms Industry? (Oxford University Press, 2003), “Come the Revolution: Transforming the Asia-Pacific’s Militaries,” Naval War College Review (Fall 2005), and Transforming the U.S. Military: Implications for the Asia-Pacific (ASPI, December 2006). He has written several monographs and book chapters, and his articles have appeared in such journals as International Security, Orbis, China Quarterly, and The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis. Mr. Bitzinger was previously an Associate Professor with the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS), Honolulu, Hawaii, and has also worked for the RAND Corporation, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Affairs, and the U.S. Government. In 1999-2000, he was a Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council of the United States. He holds a Masters degree from the Monterey Institute of International Affairs and has pursued additional postgraduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Gerard Chaliand is considered since decades as a pre-eminent observer of insurgency warfare. For the past 20 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 is spent nine months in Iraq in the last five years and has been recently twice in Afghanistan has Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies (CAPS) in Kabul.
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.
Paul T. Mitchell comes to the School from the Canadian Forces College in Toronto, where he was the Director of Academics for four years and helped establish the Masters in Defence Studies for the Command and Staff Course taught there. His research interests are in US military policy and operations, especially in the area of transformation and emerging operational concepts. In 2003, he was awarded the United States Naval Institute’s Literary Award for the best article on surface naval warfare for his article in the Naval War College Review, “Network Centric Warfare and Small Navies: Is there a Role?”. He has published in Journal of Strategic Studies, Armed Forces and Society, US Naval Institute Proceedings, US Naval War College Review, and the Canadian Military Journal. In 1997, he co-edited Multinational Naval Cooperation and Foreign Policy in the 21st Century. He has taught at Queen’s University Kingston, Dalhousie University in Halifax, the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, Royal Military College, and the Canadian Forces College. He has a PhD in Political Studies from Queen’s University and an MA from King’s College London in War Studies. He is married to Meithili and has two children, Christianne Saraswati, and Alexander Siddharth.
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.
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.
Ali Soufan is a Visiting Senior Fellow in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and the Chief Executive Officer of the Soufan Group LLC, a company specializing in international security consulting and training. Since the launch of the Soufan Group, Mr. Soufan has expanded the portfolio of services to include comprehensive training programs designed to enhance the capabilities and security strategies of government agencies and major industries. Prior to establishing the Soufan Group, Mr. Soufan was the Chief Operations Officer International Division of Giuliani Security & Safety LLC, a division of Giuliani Partners LLC, and served as a Supervisor Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation respectively. During his tenure with Giuliani Safety & Security, Mr. Soufan was instrumental in expanding the global reach of GSS and establishing its international base in Doha, Qatar. As a Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigations, Mr. Soufan served on the Joint Terrorist Task Force (JTTF), FBI New York Office, where he coordinated both domestic and international counter-terrorism operations. During his distinguished career with the FBI, Mr. Soufan investigated and supervised a number of highly sensitive and complex international terrorism cases including the East Africa Bombings, the attack on the USS Cole, and the events surrounding 9/11. While operating in often austere overseas environments, Mr. Soufan carried out sensitive extra-territorial missions and delicate negotiations and discussions. Mr. Soufan is the recipient of the FBI Director Award/Excellence in Investigation, presented for his efforts in the East African Embassy bombings case. He received the prestigious Respect for Law Enforcement Award for “relentless pursuit of truth and bringing terrorist subjects before the bar of justice,” during the USS Cole investigation. The United States Department of Defense commended Special Agent Soufan “as an important weapon in the ongoing war on terrorism.” Mr. Soufan has appeared as a panelist and an honor guest speaker on international terrorism issues, to include the Homeland Security Annual Seminar, and GOVSEC Conference in the United States, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Diplomatic Academy in Singapore, and the other international security forums both domestic and abroad. Mr. Soufan is an Honors graduate from Mansfield University of Pennsylvania where he received two undergraduate degrees in International Studies and Political Science. He is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Villanova University where he received a Master of Arts in International Relations.
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.
PETER WILSON is an Adjunct Fellow in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and a former Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the National University of Singapore, where he taught from 1989 to 2007, having previously taught for a year in Malaysia and, prior to that, at a number of Universities in the UK including Warwick, Sussex, Bradford and Hull. He is also currently adjunct teaching at Singapore Management University and teaches on the University of Adelaide MBA and Master of Finance courses in Singapore. His main teaching and research interests lie in macroeconomics and international economics with special reference to East and South-East Asia. Dr. Wilson has co-authored (with Gavin Peebles) two books on Singapore: The Singapore Economy (1996); Economic Growth and Development in Singapore: Past and Present (2002); co-authored (with Euston Quah) an Asian edition of Mankiw’s Principles of Economics; and has published articles in journals such as World Economy, Applied Economics, Australian Economic Papers, Open Economies Review, Journal of Economic Studies, Asian Economic Journal, Economic Modeling and Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy. He has been a Consultant to the Economic Policy Department at the Monetary Authority of Singapore since 2004, edits their bi-annual Macroeconomic Review, teaches the Monetary Authority of Singapore Economic Policy Course, and is a former Chairman of the Education subcommittee for the Economic Society of Singapore.
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