C.V. Starr Distinguished Professor; Director of the Asian Studies Program; Director of the Southeast Asia Studies Program
Expertise Geographic Areas
Asia | East Asia | Japan | Southeast Asia | Cambodia | Indonesia | Myanmar/Burma | Thailand | Vietnam Issues
ASEAN | economics | global financial crises | irregular warfare | World Bank and International Monetary Fund Background and Education
Former professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley; adviser to the president of the World Bank and executive vice president of the International Finance Corporation; former senior adviser at Cerberus Capital Partners and managing director at International Foreign Exchange Concepts; was president of the U.S.-Thailand Business Council; served as national security adviser to the vice president of the United States, special assistant to the president, senior director for Asia on the National Security Council and deputy assistant secretary of Defense for East Asia and the Pacific; Ph.D., political science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Publications
Asian Contagion: The Causes and Consequences of a Financial Crisis, editor (1999); Cambodia 1975-1978: Rendezvous With Death (1989); ASEAN in Regional and International Context (1986); United States-Thailand Relations (1986); ASEAN Security and Economic Development, editor (1984); Traditional Authority, Islam and Rebellion: A Study of Indonesian Political Behavior (1980); Political Power and Communications in Indonesia, co-editor (1978); author of numerous articles in journals and other publications | 
