Until May 2012, Director, External Relations, ASEAN Secretariat. Associate Professor and Head, Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Secretary-General, Consortium of Non-Traditional Security Studies in Asia (NTS-Asia). Member: Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Study Group on the Responsibility to Protect; ASEAN Institutes of Strategic and International Studies (ASEAN-ISIS) network; International Advisory Board, Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (APCR2P); Global Consortium on Security Transformation (GCST). Working on a project on revisiting regionalism in Asia. Has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals on a broad range of security issues in the Asia-Pacific region. Research interests: regionalism and regional security in the Asia-Pacific, multilateral security cooperation, politics and international relations in ASEAN, conflict prevention and management, human security.