Experts
Major General (Retd) Dr. Md. Nayeem Ashfaque Chowdhury, PhD
Major General (Retired) Dr. Md. Nayeem Ashfaque Chowdhury is a distinguished military officer, strategic thinker, and public intellectual with over 32 years of service in the Bangladesh Army and the United Nations.
Professor Shahab Inam Khan, PhD
Professor Shahab Enam Khan is an academic and policy expert specialising in Foreign Affairs, Defence, and Security—particularly terrorism, extremism, migration, and energy. His regional focus includes South and Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
Altaf Pervej
Altaf Parvez is one of Bangladesh's most respected voices on regional geopolitics and social justice. As a researcher-journalist, he has spent decades documenting the lived realities of people residing in the peripheries of South Asia.
Lilianne Fan
Lilianne Fan is a leading expert on the Rohingya crisis, Myanmar and the role of ASEAN. An anthropologist with over 25 years’ experience in armed conflict, displacement, and humanitarian crises .
Napas Thein
Napas Thein is an Associate at McMillan Vantage and an inaugural Research Fellow at the Myanmar Policy and Community Knowledge Hub at the University of Toronto. His work focuses on Myanmar, Indo-Pacific policy, trade, ASEAN, and Canada–Asia relations. He holds a Master of Public Policy and an Honours BA from the University of Toronto.