Honolulu, Hawaii

Kavi Chongkittavorn is currently a visiting Fellow at the East-West Center. He is also a Senior Fellow at Institute of Security and International Studies, Chulalongkorn University. His research interests are: US foreign policy toward Southeast Asia, especially with Thailand, the future of Indo-Pacific, Asean affairs and regional security architecture. He was a former editor in chief of Myanmar Times from February to December 2017. He has been a journalist for the past three decades with the English daily, The Nation, from 1984-2013 as reporter, editor, managing editor and editorial writer. From 1994-1995, he served as a special assistant to ASEAN Secretary General based in Jakarta. He is now a columnist for The Bangkok Post.