International Advisory Board

Alistair Gee (Chair) is the Executive Director of act for peace - the international humanitarian and development agency of the National Council of Churches in Australia. CWS is also the Australian member of ACT Development, which runs humanitarian and development programs in 157 countries, of which act for peace is currently involved in 23 countries. He is Co-Convenor of Make Poverty History (current) and its 2007 APEC Team Leader and 2006 G-20 Team Leader. He is currently Chair of the ACFID Advocacy and Public Policy Committee; Chairman of Jubilee Australia -- an inter-agency campaign working on critical issues in finance for development; Between 2001 and 2005 he was Chairman of the Refugee Advice & Casework Service Australia (2001-2005). Between 2000-2003 he was Coordinator of Amnesty International's Refugee Team (2000-2003). This work also included being Secretary of the Asylum Seekers Interagency (ASI) and Chair of the ASI Detention Working Group (1999 - 2001).

M. C. Abad Jr has been the director of the ASEAN Regional Forum Unit (in the ASEAN Secretariat) since 1993. Prior to this, he worked in the Office of the President of the Philippines, between 1987 and 1991, as Chief Presidential Staff Officer. In 1992, he was Chief Congressional Staff Officer in the Philippine Congress.

Prof. Amitav Acharya is currently Professor of International Relations at the University of Bristol, UK. Prior to this he was the Deputy Director as well as the Head of Research at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies in Singapore. Prior to this, he held teaching positions at both York University (Toronto) and Harvard University, where he was respective Professor of Political Science and Fellow of the Center for Business and Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is author of ‘Redefining the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Intervention,' among other articles that focus on the Responsibility to Protect in Asia.

K. S Balakrishnan is currently a Senior Lecturer with the Department of International and Strategic Studies, faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya. He had served in the Institute of International Strategic Studies, KL (1993-1997) and Monash University KL Campus (1999-May, 2000) before joining the University of Malaya. He has written numerous articles in Journal of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations, Asian Defence and Diplomacy and Defence Advisor. He is the Co-Editor for The Making of Security Community in the Asia Pacific (1994, KL:ISIS Malaysia) and author of ASEAN Sumbangan Keselamatan Serantau (ASEAN Security),(1990, KL:IBS). He is advisor to think tanks in KL among other the Stratad Asia Pacific Centre and the Institute of Peace and Conflict Resolution. His services are sought by think tanks, media and government agencies. He serves in various consultancy role for institutions of the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has widely travelled in some ASEAN border zones and familiar with Strategic or Security Policy and Foreign Policy in Malaysia both from a theoretical and practical sense. He has been training the Armed Forces on knowledge of Strategic Studies. Formerly a British Aerospace Scholarship holder for M.A. (1991-1992). He received several other research and travel grants. He has a very highly specialise knowlegde on Malaysia's Defence and Foreign Policy, Malaysia's relationship with countries like Australia, India,China and the United States and the ASEAN Security Process.

Dr Mely Caballero-Anthony is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and Secretary-General of the Consortium on Non-Traditional Security in Asia. She is a member of the Council for Security and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP). She is also an associate member of ASEAN Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ASEAN-ISIS).

Dr Paul Evans is co-CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada. Currently he is on secondment from the University of British Columbia, where he is undertaking two appointments - to the Liu Institute for Global Issues and the Institute of Asian Research.

Dr. Miki Honda is Associate Professor of International Relations at Waseda University, Tokyo.

Prof. Noel Morada is Professor of Political Science at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City. He is the author of "Responsibility to Protect Roadmap in Southeast Asia: Challenges and Prospects", a major report which examines the role that R2P would play in the region. Prof. Morada is also Director of the Centre's Philippines Program.

Prof. Shin-wha Lee is Research Director of the Ilmin International Relations Institute, Department Chair in the Department of Political Science and International Relations, and Director of the Politics, Economics, and Law Program at Korea University, Korea. She holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland and College Park (1994), UA and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. She has worked as a Researcher at the World Bank, Project Coordinator for the Minorities at Risk Project and as a Research Associate at the UN High Commissioner for Refugee. She also served as a Special Advisor to the United Nations, 'Rwandan Independent Inquiry' appointed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and as Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair on Peace, Democracy and Human Rights (2000-2003). She is a member of the Board of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) and is due to take up a position as Visiting Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs and Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Dr. Rizal Sukma is currently Deputy Executive at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta, Indonesia. He is also the Chairman of International Relations Division, Central Executive Board of Muhammadiyah (second largest Islamic organisation in Indonesia with approximately 25 million members); member of the board at Syafii Maarif Institute for Culture and Humanity; a visiting lecturer at Department of International Relations at Muhammadiyah University - Malang; and a member of the National Committee on Strategic Defense Review, Indonesia's Ministry of Defence. He received his PhD degree in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom in 1997. Dr Sukma is the author of numerous papers and reports, and has published in several journals and other internationally circulated publications

Dr. Pranee Thiparat is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations in the Faculty of Political Science at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. She was also Director of the Bangkok-based Institute of Security and International Studies (ISIS) from 2000 to 2002, and between 2003 and 2005 was chairperson of the Department of International Relations at Chulalongkorn University. Dr Pranee translated the ICISS document on The Responsibility to Protect into Thai in 2006, and also participated in the Commission's round tables.

Mr. Path Heang is currently a Specialist on Youth and Adolescent Development at UNICEF in Cambodia. Prior to this he has worked as Alternative Dispute Resolution Specialist at UNDP and as a Programme and Research Officer at the World Bank where he worked on governance, social accountability, and analysis of upsurge disputes on land and natural resources. At Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI), he led a social dialogue forum which aimed at preventing and resolving election conflicts. Mr. Heang has also worked for International Labour Organization (ILO) in the establishment of strategy and mechanisms for addressing labour disputes, including the Arbitration Council. Prior to this he was a Senior Programme and Policy Officer at Working Group for Weapons Reduction in Cambodia where he oversaw collection, destruction, and safe storage of tens of thousands of weapons in Cambodia.

Mr. Heang holds an Advanced Master's Degree of International Studies in International Relations, Peace and Conflict Resolution from the University of Queensland, Australia.

The International Advisory Board also includes Institutional Members:

Oxfam Australia is engaged in a wide range of development projects in the Asia-Pacific region, all aimed at helping poor and marginalised people to have greater power over the circumstances of their lives, through more equitable treatment, practising and promoting basic human rights, and ensuring a healthy and sustainable environment.

Austcare/Actionaid is committed to helping people who have been adversely affected by conflict, natural disaster or poverty. It has initiated projects in more that thirty countries over the last four decades, with the aim of helping people to bring about long term improvements in their lives, through such activities as poverty reduction, protection, mine action, livelihood recovery, emergency response and research.

The Pacific Islands Forum was founded in 1971, and is made up of sixteen countries in the Pacific. Its primary aim is to maintain dialogue on issues that are relevant to the Pacific, in order to ensure the region enjoys peace, stability and economic prosperity.