Amitav Acharya

Amitav Acharya is Deputy Director and Head of Research at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies of Singapore, where he also holds a professorship.

Prior to his appointment he was Professor of Political Science at York University (Toronto) and Fellow of the Center for Business and Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

He has been a Fellow of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and a Fellow of the Harvard University Asia Center, and taught at the National University of Singapore, Sydney University. Acharya has written extensively on Asia Pacific security issues.

He is currently a Senior Fellow of the Asia Pacific Policy Program of the John F. Kennedy of Government and a member of the Eminent Persons/Expert Group of the Asean Regional Forum.

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