AMITAV ACHARYA is Professor of International Relations at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC. He has previously taught at universities in Canada (York), UK (Bristol), Singapore (National University and Nanyang). He wasFellow of the Asia Center, Harvard University, and Fellow of the Center for Business and Government at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Professor Acharya has been appointed to visiting professorships and fellowships at universities in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa Thailand and UK. These include the Lee Kuan Yew School for Public Policy, Singapore, Nuffield College, Oxford, and Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford. He holds (2012-13) the Nelson Mandela Visiting Professorship in International Relations at Rhodes University, South Africa. He has given numerous public and academic lectures at universities such as Delhi, Oxford, Harvard, Columbia, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Sydney, Waseda (Tokyo), Hebrew University (Jerusalem), China Foreign Affairs University (Beijing), Korea University (Seoul), Fudan University (Shanghai), Pretoria, Free University (Berlin), and Science Po (Paris). He has been a keynote speaker at international conferences in Stockholm, Bordeaux, Munich, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Singapore, London, New York, Washington, D.C. Pretoria, and Tokyo.
On 14th April 2011, at the invitation of its President, he addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York on the subject of human security.
Professor Acharya’s publications cover both academic and public affairs topics and number over 25 books (including nine self-authored) and 200 journal and magazine articles. His books include: The Quest for Identity: International Relations of Southeast Asia (Oxford 2000); Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia (Routledge 2001, 2nd ed. 2009); Asia Rising: Who is Leading (Singapore and London: Word Scientific, 2007), The Age of Fear (Singapore and London: Marshall Cavendish, New Delhi, Rupa), and The Making of Southeast Asia: International Relations of a Region (Cornell University Press and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012). His 2009 book, Whose Ideas Matter: Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism (Cornell, 2009) was among five books selected by the Asia Society of New York for their “exceptional contributions to the understanding of contemporary Asia or US-Asia relations” for its Bernard Schwartz Book Award).
His essays have been published in the world’s top academic and policy journals such as International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, World Politics, Foreign Affairs, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Asian Studies, Survival, and Washington Quarterly. He is the co-chief editor of the Studies in Asian Security series for Stanford University Press, widely regarded as the best book series in the field of Asian security.
A regular commentator in the world’s media, he has appeared on BBC TV, CNN, BBC World Service Radio, Al-Jazeera TV, CNBC TV, CTV (Canada) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio, Radio Australia, Channel News Asia TV, and Thai PBS TV.
He has been a consultant to the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, UNESCO and a host of national development agencies on issues related to development, security and cooperation. He served on the Global Defence Advisory Committee of Finmeccanica, one of the world’s top ten companies in aerospace, defence and security.
Prof Acharya has written numerous op-eds for international newspapers and magazines including Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, National Public Radio (NPR) online, Huffington Post, Australian Financial Review,Asia Times, Times of India, Indian Express, Straits Times, Jakarta Post, Bangkok Post, Asiaweek, Far Eastern Economic Review, Japan Times, South China Morning Post, YaleGlobal Onlinecovering such topics as international and Asian security, the war on terror, and the rise of China and India.
On 5th December 2012, Prof Acharya was elected to be the 54th President of the International Studies Association (ISA), “the most well respected and widely known scholarly association” in the field of international studies worldwide."
Prof Acharya was born in India and was educated in both India and Australia. He lived and worked in Singapore for 12 years and is regarded as one of the world’s top specialists on Southeast Asia and Asian affairs. He is a regular visitor to Southeast Asia, China and other East Asian countries. He is married to Ying Dai, who was born in Guangzhou, China. They and their son live in Bethesda, Maryland.
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