Dr. Muhibat is the Chief Editor of the academic journal the Indonesian Quarterly and has been a member of the research staff at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia, since 2000. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Hamburg and is author of Regional Security Cooperation: A Conceptual Analysis of Cooperative Security with Illustrations of Practices in East Asia (2013).
Dr. Nankivell is the Associate Dean for Academics at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, where he was previously an associate professor. He studies and teaches the relationship of international law to international relations, the law of the sea, the South China Sea, the Arctic, security sector development, and international organization. He previously taught at the University of Victoria, Vancouver Island University, and the Royal Military College of Canada.
Ms. Nankivell is an Associate Professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu. Her teaching and research focus on Asian maritime security, strategy, and decision-making. Previously, she served as a program manager in the Office of the Asia-Pacific Policy Advisor in Canada’s Maritime Forces Pacific Headquarters. She earned an MPhil in International Relations at Cambridge University.
Dr. Nguyen is Professor of International Law at the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam and the Vietnam National University. He has over 40 years of experience in diplomacy, high level negotiations, and legal study and practice. He served two terms in the post of ambassador in Malaysia and Kuwait.
Ms. Permal is a Senior Researcher with the Centre for the Straits of Malacca at the Maritime Institute of Malaysia. Her research areas are maritime security developments and strategies in the Asia-Pacific, as well as traditional and non-traditional security issues in Southeast Asia. Her current focus is on strategic and defense issues in the South China Sea and the Strait of Malacca.
Dr. Sahashi is an Associate Professor of International Politics at Kanagawa University, Yokohama, and a Research Fellow at the Japan Center for International Exchange. He was previously a visiting associate professor at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University; a postdoctoral fellow at Australian National University; and an assistant professor at University of Tokyo.
Dr. Storey is a Senior Fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore. At ISEAS he specializes in Asian security issues, with a focus on Southeast Asia and particularly the territorial and maritime boundary disputes in the South China Sea. He is also the editor of the institute’s flagship academic journal Contemporary Southeast Asia. He previously held academic positions at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, and at Deakin University, Melbourne.