Speaker: Prof. Dr. Steven Ratuva is Director of the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies (University of Canterbury, New Zealand). He is an award winning interdisciplinary Fijian scholar whose global expertise spans international relations, political science, sociology, history, development studies, conflict and peace studies, indexology and digitised social control, social protection, affirmative action, globalized knowledge and the politics of climate emergency. He was Fulbright Senior Fellow at the University of California (LA), Duke University and Georgetown University. He is one of the few Distinguished Professors in New Zealand and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has advised and done consultancy work for a number of international organisations such as UNDP, ILO, British Council, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, Pacific Islands Forum, Commonwealth Secretariat, and Asian Development Bank.

Chairs & Moderation: Prof. Dr. Patrick Köllner is Vice President of the GIGA, Director of the GIGA Institute for Asian Studies, and a political science professor at the University of Hamburg.

Marianne Péron-Doise is Research Fellow at the Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’Ecole Militaire (IRSEM), Paris.

Speaker:

Dr Huong LE THU is a Senior Fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) and a Nonresident Fellow at the Center for Strategic and  International Studies in the Southeast Asia Program. At ASPI, she leads research on Southeast Asia, including on regional alignment politics,  perceptions of great-power competition, defense diplomacy, regional  dispute management, and ASEAN regionalism. A prolific and influential policy analyst of security and diplomacy in the region, she has written widely in academic, think tank publications as well as in global media, including The Asian Security Journal, The Asia-Pacific Review, The Asian Policy, Oxford University Press, The Foreign Policy, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Nikkei Asian Review, The Australian Financial Review, The Straits Times, Japan Times, among others.
Prior to joining ASPI, she taught at the Australian National University and held research positions at the ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore and the Institute of International Relations at the National Chengchi University in  Taiwan. She has also worked and lived in Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, and Seoul, among others. Dr. Le Thu holds a PhD from the National Chengchi  University and an MA in international studies from Jagiellonian University  in Poland.  She speaks five languages and has published in four of them.

Chairs:

Dr. David Camroux is Honorary Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor, Sciences Po-CERI.
Prof. Dr. Patrick Köllner is Vice President of the GIGA, Director of the GIGA Institute for Asian Studies, and a political science professor at the University of Hamburg.

Scientific coordinators : Christophe Jaffrelot, Sciences Po-CERI / CNRS, David Camroux, Sciences Po – CERI, Patrick Köllner, GIGA and Amrita Narlikar, GIGA.

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