Asia Honorary Advisers
Professor Thitinan Pongsudhirak
Asia Honorary Adviser, Thailand
Thitinan Pongsudhirak is Professor of International Relations at Chulalongkorn University and Senior Fellow at its Institute of Security and International Studies (ISIS) in Bangkok.
Thitinan has held visiting positions at Johns Hopkins University, Stanford University, University of Victoria in New Zealand, among others, and serves on editorial boards of academic journals, including Journal of Democracy.
He has authored a host of articles, books, book chapters and over 1,000 opinion articles in mass media, Nikkei Asian Review and The Bangkok Post. His comments have appeared regularly in international media, including Aljazeera, BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, DW, among others.
Prior to his academic and think-tank career, Thitinan worked for the BBC World Service and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in London. His current work focuses on the geopolitics and geoeconomics of Asean and the Indo-Pacific in view of the US-China conflict.
In 2015, he was recognised for excellence in opinion writing by Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA). More recently, he was appointed ASEAN@50 Fellow by New Zealand’s Minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade and Australia-Asean Fellow at Sydney’s Lowy Institute.
Currently, he is senior advisor for geopolitics with Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) and independent expert of ADMM+ Cybersecurity and Information Centre of Excellence (ACICE).
In January 2024, Thitinan was awarded a commendation by the Japanese government for his work on Japan-Thailand and Japan-ASEAN relations. Thitinan completed his MA at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and PhD at London School of Economics.