Fellows
Distinguished Fellows
Associate Professor Dr Roy Anthony Rogers
Dr Roy Anthony Rogers is an Associate Professor with the Department of Strategic and International Studies, University of Malaya, having joined the Department in 2001. He served as the Head of Department from 2012 to September 2020. He is currently the Deputy Executive Director of the Asia Europe Institute (AEI). He has a Master in Strategic and Defence Studies (M.SDS) from the University of Malaya. He has also taught at the Malaysian Armed Forces Staff College (MAFSC) and the Malaysian Defence Armed Forces College (MDAF).
Dr Syed Mahmud Ali
Dr Syed Mahmud Ali, after graduating from the Pakistan Military Academy, commanded an anti-tank platoon in the Sindh-Rajasthan desert sector during the Indian-Pakistani war in December 1971. He later attended the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies (RUSI), and King’s College London, for six years of post-graduate and research in geopolitical and strategic studies, the latter funded by the William and Catherine MacArthur Foundation in Chicago, being subsequently awarded a doctorate in “War Studies” by the University of London.
After serving with BBC Global News for over two decades successively as a broadcast-journalist, analyst and editor – focusing initially on South Asia and later, on the East Asia-Pacific region – he was appointed an East Asia Programme Associate at the LSE IDEAS. He later moved to Malaysia, where he was appointed an Associate Fellow by the Institute of China Studies, University of Malaya.
Dr Ali has authored 11 books, including a seven-volume series on the post-1941 evolution of US-Chinese strategic insecurity dynamics. His latest book, based on an examination of US diplomatic, military and intelligence archives, and tracing the US-Chinese-Russian triadic trajectory since the 1830s, was published in 2022.
Mr Xu Qinduo
Mr Xu Qinduo majored in both English and international studies. His research focus has been on China’s rise and its interactions with the rest of the world. Mr Xu spent four years in the US as chief correspondent of China Radio International and one year in Australia as a visiting scholar at the University of Melbourne. He is an Adjunct Professor at Renmin University of China.
He is a former talk show host and producer of the TODAY show at China Radio International. As a political analyst and senior researcher who follows Chinese foreign policy closely, Mr Xu frequently contributes to international media outlets such as The New York Times, Press TV, Turkey’s TRT, and Russia Today. He is the co-author of the Chinese-language book The Rise of China and The Real Western World.
Senior Fellows
Commander Ang Chin Hup (Retd)
Cdr Ang Chin Hup (Retd) is a National Consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP). A graduate of Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC) in the United Kingdom (UK), Cdr Ang is a former commander with the Royal Malaysia Navy (RMN) and served with the Ministry of Defence and the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).
Cdr Ang was a Centre Head, Centre for Maritime Economics & Industries and a Senior Researcher, Centre for Maritime Security and Diplomacy at the Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA) from 2015 to 2022.
His research interests are in maritime economics, transportation, connectivity and geopolitics. As a maritime economist, he spoke on blue economy in the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) conferences in Indonesia, India and South Africa, and on transportation connectivity in the Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam – Thailand (CLMV-T countries) as well as in China and Pakistan. His articles on the topics appeared in several publications including MIMA’s Malaysia as a Maritime Nation.
In geopolitics, Cdr Ang spoke on maritime security in conferences hosted by the United States’ Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA), Diplomacy Academy of Vietnam (DAV), the Indian Maritime Foundation (IMF) and the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources & Security (ANCORS). He is also invited to speak at the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2023.
Cdr Ang has a Bachelor of Business from the RMIT University, Australia and a Master of Science in Engineering Business Management from the University of Warwick, UK, and attended training in the US and Canada.