Prof. Amitav Acharya
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Advisory Board Member Prof. Amitav Acharya Amitav Acharya is Professor of International Relations and holds the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C. He has held faculty appointments at York University (Canada); University of Bristol (UK) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He was formerly a Fellow of the Asia Center, Harvard University, and a Fellow of the Center for Business and Government at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government Professor Acharya has been awarded a number of fellowships and chairs around the world, including the Christensen Fellowship at Oxford University, the Nelson Mandela Visiting Professorship in International Relations at Rhodes University (South Africa) and the ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) Chair in Regional Integration at the University of Malaya (Malaysia). He specializes in international security and global governance issues, emerging powers, Southeast Asia and Asian security affairs. He is the author or editor of 25 books and over 200 journal or magazine articles, including The End of the American World Order (Polity 2014); Whose Ideas Matter? (Cornell, 2009) Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2001, 2009, 2014); and Asia Rising: Who is Leading? (World Scientific 2007). He has written numerous op-eds for international newspapers such as Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, National Public Radio (NPR) online, Huffington Post (Canada), Australian Financial Review, Times of India, Indian Express, Straits Times, Jakarta Post, Bangkok Post, Far Eastern Economic Review, Japan Times, South China Morning Post, and YaleGlobal Online. He has appeared on BBC World TV, CNN, National Public Radio (NPR), BBC TV, BBC World Service Radio, RTV (Moscow), Al- Jazeera TV, CNBC TV, CTV (Canada) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio, Radio Australia, Channel News Asia TV, and Thai PBS TV. During 2014-15, Prof Acharya serves as the President of the International Studies Association (ISA). Published 11/08/2014.