Amitav Acharya is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Distinguished Professor at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC. He is also the Chair of the ASEAN Studies Initiative at American University. He is an Honorary Professor at Rhodes University, South Africa. Previously he taught at York University, Toronto, University of Bristol, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He also held the inaugural Boeing Company Chair in International Relations at the Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua University in 2016-18 and was elected to the Christensen Fellowship at Oxford. Among his major works on Southeast Asia are Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the Problems of Regional Order (3rd edition, 2014), The Making of Southeast Asia (2013), Whose Ideas Matter?: Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism (2009), and East of India, South of China: Sino- Indian Encounters in Southeast Asia (2017). He is the first non-Western scholar to be elected as the President of the International Studies Association (ISA), the most respected and influential global network of scholars in International Relations. He is the recipient of two Distinguished Scholar Awards from the ISA for his scholarship and contributions to international relations theory in the Global South (2015) and the study of international organizations and global governance (2018).