Management Board

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Professor Tim Bunnell

Director
Asia Research Institute

Director's Message

Now well into its third decade, the Asia Research Institute (ARI) is among the world’s foremost centres for academic research on Asia. By bringing together scholars working across the social sciences and humanities, and providing a platform for collaboration with other fields, the Institute forms a vital space for Asia-focused interdisciplinary research. The location of ARI at NUS, one of the Asia-Pacific region’s premier universities, and of NUS itself in Singapore – a long established hub for movements of people and ideas – provides us with an incomparable institutional and geographical home for research on Asia.

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Professor Joanne Roberts

Chair
Board of Management

Chair's Message

The Asia Research Institute (ARI) has come a long way since it was first established in 2001. We are now one of the leading international research nodes for scholars in Asia, facilitating dialogue, building networks and producing world-class research on the Asian region, that is shared with the academic community and beyond.

In our present multi-polar world, the rising presence of Asia cannot be denied. This makes the study of the region even more essential as we seek to deal with the problems of today’s increasingly interconnected yet fragmented world.

Chair

Prof Joanne ROBERTS

President
Yale-NUS College

Ex Officio

Prof Tim BUNNELL

Director, Asia Research Institute
National University of Singapore

Board Members

Prof Lynette J. CHUA

Professor and Vice Dean (Research)
Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Head of Studies, Law-Liberal Arts
Yale-NUS College

Prof Noah LIM

Director, Global Asia Institute
Provost's Chair Professor, NUS Business School
National University of Singapore

Prof Audrey YUE

Professor, Department of Communications
and New Media
National University of Singapore

Board Members

Prof Vineeta SINHA

Professor, Department of Sociology
National University of Singapore

Prof TEO Hock Hai

Director, Humanities and Social Sciences Research
Office of the Deputy President
(Research and Technology)
National University of Singapore

Prof Tan Puay Yok

Dean's Chair Professor
Department of Architecture
College of Design and Engineering
National University of Singapore

Chairman

Prof TAN Tai Yong

President
Singapore University of Social Sciences

Members

Prof Sunil AMRITH

Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History
Yale University

Prof Michele FORD

Professor of Southeast Asian Studies
The University of Sydney

Prof Kellee Sing TSAI

Dean, College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Northeastern University

Prof Steven VERTOVEC

Director
Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious
and Ethnic Diversity

Ms YEOH Chee Yan

Chairman
National Heritage Board

Prof Tim BUNNELL (ex-officio member)

Director, Asia Research Institute
National University of Singapore

Director

Prof Tim BUNNELL

Asia Research Institute
National University of Singapore

Commitee Members

Prof Jamie DAVIDSON

Asia Research Institute
National University of Singapore

Prof Kenneth DEAN

Asia Research Institute
National University of Singapore

Prof Tim WINTER

Asia Research Institute
National University of Singapore

Prof Brenda YEOH FBA

Asia Research Institute
National University of Singapore

Assoc Prof Maitrii AUNG-THWIN

Asia Research Institute
National University of Singapore

Assoc Prof Jiat Hwee CHANG

Asia Research Institute
National University of Singapore

Dr Michel CHAMBON

Asia Research Institute
National University of Singapore

Dr Joppan GEORGE

Asia Research Institute
National University of Singapore

Dr LI Shumeng

Asia Research Institute
National University of Singapore

Ms Sharlene Anthony

Asia Research Institute
National University of Singapore

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Kishore MAHBUBANI

Kishore Mahbubani is a Distinguished Fellow at ARI for a period of three years effective 1 July 2019. He was with the Singapore Foreign Service for 33 years (1971-2004), where he served twice as Singapore's Ambassador to the United Nations and as Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Ministry from 1993-1998. He was also the Founding Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy from 2004-2017. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of seven books, including 'Can Asians Think?' His research interests are in the resurgence of Asia, ASEAN, public policies in Singapore, global geo-politics and global governance. He is now working on a book on US-China relations entitled 'Has China Won?'

He is located at AS8-07-16 and can be contacted at his e-mail address at kishore_mahbubani@nus.edu.sg

Chua Beng Huat

CHUA Beng Huat

Chua Beng Huat is Emeritus Professor. He had been Professor of Urban Studies at the Yale-NUS College and Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore. Professor Chua received his PhD from York University, Canada. He has previously served as Provost Chair Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Science (2009-2017), Research Leader, Cultural Studies in Asia Cluster, Asia Research Institute (2000-2015); Convenor of Cultural Studies Programmes (2008-2013) and Head of Department of Sociology (2009-2015), National University of Singapore. His publications include: The Golden Shoe: Building Singapore’s Financial District (1989), Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore (1995), Political Legitimacy and Housing: Stakeholding in Singapore (1997), Life is Not Complete without Shopping (2003), and as editor, Singapore Studies II: Critical Studies (1999). Beyond Singapore writings, he has edited several volumes on cultural politics in Asia, including Consumption in Asia: Lifestyles and Identities (2000)Communitarian Politics in Asia (2004), Elections as Popular Culture in Asia (2007). His most recent book, Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore (2017), was on the list of Best Books of 2018 by Foreign Affairs journal. He is the founding co-executive editor of the journal Inter-Asia Cultural Studies.

He is located at AS8-07-23 and can be contacted at his e-mail address at chuabenghuat@nus.edu.sg