Sukawarsini Djelantik is a professor in the International Relations Department of Parahyangan Catholic University in Bandung, Indonesia. She received her Ph.D. in International Relations and Diplomacy from Flinders University in Australia, a Master of International Studies (MIntS) from The University of Sydney, Australia, and a B.A. from Padjadjaran University in Indonesia. Her research interests include international communication and traditional and non-traditional securities issues (terrorism, migration, gender).

She has recently published books on: “Diplomacy in Information Era” (2022), “Global War against Covid-19” (2021), “Diplomacy in Global Politics” (Unpar Press, 2016), and “Asia-Pacific: Conflict, Cooperation and Inter-regional Cooperation” (2015). She has received research fellowships from the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), The Australian University, Australia in 1999, and the Fulbright Junior Research Fellowship at Georgetown University, Washington D.C, USA, in 2002. She was the Head of the International Relations Program at Parahyangan University, and is currently the Head of the Parahyangan Centre for European studies (2022-present).

She also teaches International Relations in East Asia, International Communication, and Diplomacy at the undergraduate level; and International Terrorism, and Conflict and Development at the graduate level.

Marvin Ott is professorial lecturer and visiting scholar in Southeast Asia Studies at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, lecturer in East Asian Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, and Asia Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He was professor of national security policy at the National War College and faculty fellow at the Institute for National and Strategic Studies (National Defense University). He has held positions as associate professor at Mount Holyoke College, senior manager at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, adjunct professor at American University, senior East Asia analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, consultant on Japan to the National Academy of Sciences, chairperson for Southeast Asia at the Foreign Service Institute (U.S. Department of State), senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and more recently as deputy staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He served in Vietnam as deputy province representative in Darlac during the war. He has authored more than 100 chapters, articles, and monographs on primarily East Asian, intelligence, and technology assessment topics. He has been a regular commentator on Business Asia (CNN), and, most recently, a commentator on National Public Radio and Radio Free Asia. He writes a biweekly foreign policy column for The Ellsworth American (Maine) and regularly lectures at the Foreign Service Institute and the Marine Corps University. He received the Meritorious Civilian Service and Meritorious Joint Unit Service awards from the U.S. Department of Defense. He attended Chung Chi College, Hong Kong, and received an M.A. and Ph.D. from SAIS.

Harrison Prétat is an associate director and associate fellow with the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). His research interests include maritime disputes, U.S.-China relations, economic engagement in Asia, and challenges to international institutions in the twenty-first century. He holds an M.A. in international relations from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

Satu Limaye is Vice President of the East-West Center and Director of Research, East-West Center in Washington, and interim director of the Professional Development Program. He created and directs the Asia Matters for America initiative and is the founding editor of the Asia Pacific Bulletin.  He is also a Senior Advisor at CNA Corp (Center for Naval Analyses).  He is a graduate of Georgetown University and received his doctorate from Oxford University (Magdalen College) where he was a George C. Marshall Scholar.

He publishes and speaks on Indo-Pacific regional issues and supports various US government, foundation, fellowship, and professional organizations. He recently served on the Center for New American Security (CNAS) Task Force on the US-Philippines Alliance, United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Senior Study Group on the North Pacific, Project 2049 Study Group on the US-Australia Alliance, and Global Taiwan Institute-Taiwan Asia Exchange Foundation project on Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy. He serves on the Korea Economic Institute (KEI) Advisory Council and editorial board of East Asian Policy and regional editor of Global Asia.