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Dr. Banlaoi is the Director of the Center for Intelligence and National Security Studies, a constituent unit of the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research. He teaches at the Department of International Studies at Miriam College in the Philippines and is currently an Adjunct Research Professor at the National Institute for South China Sea Studies in Hainan, China. He was a full professor of Political Science at the National Defense College of the Philippines, an assistant professor of International Studies at De La Salle University, and an instructor in Political Science at the University of the Philippines at… Read More »Rommel Banlaoi

Dr. Chong is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Political Science of the National University of Singapore, where he studies and teaches the international relations of the Asia-Pacific. He was previously a research assistant professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is author of External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation – China, Indonesia, and Thailand, 1892-1952 (2012), which was awarded the 2013 Best Book Award by the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association.

Mikkal E. Herberg is a Senior Advisor to the National Bureau of Asian Research and Research Director of NBR’s Energy Security Program. He is also a senior lecturer on international and Asian energy at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego. Previously, Mr. Herberg spent 20 years in the oil industry in Strategic Planning roles for ARCO, where from 1997 to 2000 was Director for Global Energy and Economics, responsible for worldwide energy, economic, and political analysis. He also headed country risk analysis, responsible for advising the executive management on risk conditions and… Read More »Mikkal E. Herberg

Dr. Hong is Executive Director of the Institute for China-America Studies and a Research Fellow at both the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, China, and the University of Alberta, Canada. She was previously an ITLOS-Nippon fellow for international dispute settlement and a visiting fellow at the Center for Oceans Law and Policy, University of Virginia School of Law, and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. Dr. Hong is the author of UNCLOS and Ocean Dispute Settlement: Law and Politics in the South China Sea (2012).

Dr. Kraska is Howard S. Levie Professor of International Law at the Stockton Center for the Study of International Law at the U.S. Naval War College, Rhode Island. He is also a Distinguished Fellow at the Law of the Sea Institute, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Oceans Law and Policy, University of Virginia School of Law.

Dr. Mallory specializes in Chinese foreign and environmental policy. She is currently conducting research on China and global ocean governance and has published work on China’s fisheries and oceans policy. Dr. Mallory is also an affiliate instructor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. She previously served as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program. Dr. Mallory has consulted for the United Nations Foundation, the World Wildlife Fund, the World Bank, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Dr. Mallory completed her PhD with distinction in… Read More »Tabitha Mallory

Dr. Manicom is the author of Bridging Troubled Waters: China, Japan and Maritime Order in the East China Sea (2014). He has held fellowships at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the Ocean Policy Research Foundation. Other published works have appeared in the Journal of Strategic Studies, Asia Policy, Polar Record, Geopolitics, the Wall St. Journal Asia, the Globe and Mail, the China Brief, PacNet, and East Asia Forum.

Professor Medcalf is head of the National Security College, Australian National University. From 2007 to 2015, he was director of the International Security Program at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. Professor Medcalf previously served as a diplomat and, later, a senior strategic analyst with Australia’s Office of National Assessments.