Thomas J. Shattuck
Thomas J. Shattuck is a Senior Program Manager at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House. His research focuses on cross-Strait relations, Taiwanese and Chinese domestic and foreign affairs, Taiwan’s semiconductor industry, and the US role in the Indo-Pacific. Shattuck is a Non-Resident Research Fellow at the Global Taiwan Institute, Non-Resident Fellow at the Foreign […]
Fikry A. Rahman
Fikry A. Rahman is the Head of Foreign Affairs at Bait Al Amanah, a political and development research institute based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His research interests are Southeast Asian regionalism, maritime security and governance, small-state strategy, Malaysian domestic politics and foreign policy, and the politics and geopolitics of digital connectivity cooperation. Among the research […]
Kula Kukonu
Kula Kukonu is a Program Manager at Pacific Forum. Her role centers on organizing and providing logistical support for domestic and overseas conferences. From childhood, Kula has been interested in Hawaii’s unique position as a bridge between the East and the West. A firm believer in the power of studying abroad, she studied in Costa […]
Helen Wu
Helen Wu is a senior at New York University majoring in International Relations with a minor in Chinese Language. Her political interests include refugee resettlement and integration, U.S. foreign policy, strategic partnerships in the Indo-Pacific region, and regional infrastructure projects in Northeast Asia. She has led educational outreach projects in Malawi and Peru and worked […]
Kimberly Lehn
Kimberly Lehn is Senior Director at the Pacific Forum, in charge of the newly established Honolulu Defense Forum (HDF). Launched in January 2024 under the banner “Operationalizing Integration in the Indo-Pacific,” the HDF seeks to facilitate dialogue and solutions between a wide range of actors from the private and public sectors to bolster deterrence in […]
Ila Prabhuram
Ila Prabhuram is an undergraduate student at Princeton University majoring in the School of Public and International Affairs, pursuing additional minors related to technology, diplomacy, and society. Her research interests include human rights, soft power, peacebuilding and conflict resolution in South Asia and the Indo-Pacific, and security cooperation in Southeast Asia more broadly.
Chetsada Changmai
Chetsada Changmai is currently an East West Center Graduate Degree Fellow in his second year of the Master’s in Public Administration program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He received his BA in English with first-class honors from Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand. He is also a former academic fellow for the Young Southeast Asian Leaders […]
Laura Jaramillo
Laura Jaramillo is a senior at Pomona College double majoring in International Relations and Environmental Analysis. She has previously interned with Environmental Excelerator as a research consultant, and has studied Architecture Design at Yonsei University in South Korea. Her research interests include security concerns arising from disasters and diplomatic tensions as well as gender inequality, […]
Hyunseung Yu
Hyunseung Yu is a current MA in Asian Studies student at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. His research interest is Northeast Asia security issues with a primary focus on the Korean Peninsula. Especially, he is interested in US-ROK-Japan trilateral relations and North Korea nuclear issues. He currently is a Research Assistant at Georgetown University […]
Wenjing Wang
Wenjing Wang is a first-year graduate student of Asian Studies at Georgetown University, concentrating in Politics and Security, and International Political Economy. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics with a minor in Global Asian Studies from DePaul University, conferred in 2021. Wenjing’s research interests include economic security, U.S.-China relations, and Chinese soft […]
