Our Editorial Board

AsiaGlobal Online is backed by an international, multidisciplinary editorial board. Applying their diverse academic and professional expertise, board members keep a sharp eye on editorial choices and the quality of the articles.

Zoher Abdoolcarim

Former Asia Editor, TIME Magazine


Dewi Fortuna Anwar

Research Professor, Center for Political Studies, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (P2P-LIPI),
Chairman of the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights, The Habibie Center in Jakarta, Indonesia


Hongbin Cai

Dean and Chair of Economics,
Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong


Deborah Davis

Professor of Sociology, Yale University


Robert Dietz

Former Asia Program Coordinator, Committee to Protect Journalists


Soumitra Dutta

Dean of SC Johnson College of Business and Professor, Cornell University


Keiji Fukuda

MD, MPH, Director and Clinical Professor, School of Public Health,
Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong


Paul Gewirtz

Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law,
Director, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School


William N. Goetzmann

Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies,
Director of the International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management


Peter Gordon

Editor, Asian Review of Books


Surinder S. Jodhka

Professor of Sociology, Centre for the Study of Social Systems,
Jawaharlal Nehru University


Masahiro Kawai

Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo
Representative Director and Director-General, Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia (ERINA)


Arthur Kleinman

Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthopology, Harvard University
Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School


Angela Leung

Director of the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Chair Professor of History, The University of Hong Kong


Hyung-Gu Lynn

AECL/KEPCO Chair in Korean Research,
Editor, Pacific Affairs, University of British Columbia


Gina Marchetti

Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong


Yumiko Murakami

Head, OECD Tokyo Centre


Helen E. S. Nesadurai

Professor of International Political Economy, School of Arts and Social Sciences,
Monash University Malaysia


David A. Palmer

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong


Karoline Postel-Vinay

Research Professor, Centre for International Studies and Research, Sciences Po


Kishan S. Rana

Former Indian Ambassador
Professor Emeritus, DiploFoundation


Andrew Sheng

Distinguished Fellow, Asia Global Institute, The University of Hong Kong


Helen Siu

Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University


Michael Spence

Nobel Laureate,
William R. Berkley Professor in Economics and Business,
Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University


Kellee Tsai

Dean of Humanities and Social Science,
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology


Huiyao Wang

Founder and President, Center for China and Globalization


Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Chancellor’s Professor of History, University of California, Irvine