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SLOC Group

Dr James Boutilier is the Asia-Pacific Advisor at Canada's Maritime Forces Pacific Headquarters in Esquimalt, British Columbia. He is responsible for advising the Commander of Maritime Forces Pacific on matters of defence and foreign policy and maritime security in the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to his appointment at MARPAC, he spent twenty-four years on staff at the Royal Roads Military College in Victoria as Head of the History Department and then as Dean of Arts.

He attended Dalhousie University (BA History: 1960), McMaster University (MA History: 1962), and the University of London (PhD History: 1969) and served in the Royal Canadian Navy Reserve from 1956 to 1964 as a navigating officer and in the same capacity in the Royal Navy Reserve from 1964 to 1969.

His field of expertise is Asia-Pacific defence and security, particularly with regards to maritime issues. He has published widely on international defence and security issues, including RCN in Retrospect (1982), and articles in professional monographs as well as the Asia-Pacific Defence Reporter and Canadian Institute of International Affairs journals. His latest publication was a chapter on the future of navies in the Canadian Navy's centennial volume, The Naval Service of Canada, 1910-2010: The Centennial Story. Some of his recent lectures have focused on the Canadian Navy's role in the Asia-Pacific, the new Asian security architecture, Northeast Asian security issues, and the new naval order in Asia. He lectures frequently at the NATO Defense College, the Canadian Forces College, the Australian Defence College, the National Defense University of the Philippines, and Bharia University in Karachi on behalf of the Pakistani Navy.

Dr. Connie Rahakundini Bakri is a political lecturer at several institutions including the University of Indonesia, the Indonesian Navy Command and Staff College (SESKOAL), the Indonesian Air Force Command and Staff College (SESKOAU), the Indonesian National Defence University and schools operated by the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is a military and defense analyst who has written two important books about Indonesia's military and defence situation . Dr Bakri also serves the President of the Indonesia Institute for Maritime Studies and is involved with strategic decision making at the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defence, Coordinating Ministry of Politics and Security (MENKOPOLHUKAM), National Security Council (WANTANAS) and National Intelligence Board (Badan Intelejen Negara). She has recent focused attention on the ASEAN Political and Security Community, maritime security, regional security architecture and the important aspects of securing the SLOC and ADIZ (Air Defence and Identification Zone), emphasizing on the importance and strategic aspects of the regional equilibrium. She engages the public through the Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Foreign Affairs to discuss how

Indonesia with China and Australia can jointly project maritime and airspace capabilities to balance power projection in Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean.

Captain PK Ghosh retired from the Indian Navy after 27 years of commissioned service of which more than 12 years were focused on strategic analysis and academics. A graduate from the National Defence Academy, he did his postgraduate work in political science from Kurukshetra University and in telecommunications from Cochin University of Science and Technology; his doctorate in international relations is from CCS University. He is a member of the National Advisory Committee of CSCAP-India and is a co-chair of the study group on maritime/naval issues. He was a research fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (2000-04), the Prof DS Kothari DRDO Chair at the United Services Institute of India (2004-05) and was a founding member of the National Maritime Foundation (2006-08); during 2009 was a senior fellow at the Centre for Air Power Studies and is currently a Senior fellow at the Observer Research Foundation.

Rear Admiral Sumihiko Kawamura attended the National Defence Academy and graduated in 1960. After completing Officer Candidate School and the Overseas Training Squadron, he began training as a naval aviator, receiving his gold wings in 1962. He attended the JMSDF Staff College and the National Institute for Defense Studies. He held a number of staff and command appointments, including three years as Naval Attaché in the Embassy of Japan in Washington, and was Commander of Air Wings 4 and 5 based on Okinawa. He retired from the JMSDF in 1991 and in 1998 established the Kawamura Institute for Maritime Strategy and Security Studies, working closely with the Okazaki Institute. Since 2000 he has been the Executive Director of the Asian Security Forum in Tokyo.

Japan Alternate: Hideaki Kaneda

Jin-Hyun Paik is Judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany. He is also Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), Seoul National University (SNU), Korea. He has specialized in international law and organization, law of the sea, and international security and conflict management. Educated at Seoul National University (LL.B.), Columbia Law School (LL.M.), and Cambridge University (Ph.D.), he was doctoral fellow at the Hague Academy of International Law, Netherlands; visiting fellow at the Rand Corporation, Santa Monica and Hoover Institution, Stanford; and visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He has been a member of Korean delegations to various diplomatic conferences including the UN General Assembly, UN conferences on the law of the sea, and UN peacekeeping committees. He also has been a member of advisory committees to various government organizations of Korea including Presidential Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the National Security Council. He is currently President of a few academic associations in Korea including the Korean Academic Council on the UN System (KACUNS) and the Sea Lanes of Communication (SLOC) Study Group Korea. He is also President of the HaeSung Institute for Ethics in International Affairs, a non-profit, private foundation dealing with the role of ethics and norms in international relation. He has edited eight books and written over 100 articles on his field of interests both in English and Korean. Prof. Paik has been a frequent contributor and commentator on international affairs to major Korean newspapers and international media such as CNN, CNBC, BBC, Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, Asian Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Newsweek, Asiaweek, etc.

Nazery Khalid is a renowned Malaysian maritime analyst and scholar who spent ten years in Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA), a Kuala Lumpur-based policy think tank, where he was Senior Fellow and Research Coordinator. He has published over 250 articles in refereed journals, magazines, newspapers and online platforms, and chapters in books, on various maritime topics including on SLOCs such as Malacca Straits and South China Sea, on maritime security and maritime strategic issues. He edited two conference proceedings on the Straits of Malacca, and was a regular speaker and role player at seminars and conferences on SLOCs and on various maritime security and maritime strategic topics. He was

involved in such events in China, France, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Taiwan ROC, Turkey and the United States, among others. Nazery represented Malaysia at the Maritime Environmental Protection Committee and Maritime Security Committee meetings at the International Maritime Organization in London in 2010 and 2015. He was Visiting Scholar at various renowned universities and institutes including Cardiff University (Wales), Universitie Paris Diderot (Paris, France), Sun Yat Sen University (Guangzhou, China), Bahria University (Karachi, Pakistan) and National Institute of South China Seas Studies (Haikou, Hainan).

Mr Peter Cozens joined the British India Steam Navigation Company Limited in 1964. During those years he sailed in the Company's cadetship, cargo, passenger and cruise liners, sailing and trading around the orient and the littoral of Europe but left in 1972 to join the Royal New Zealand Navy. During his career in the RNZN he enjoyed a wide variety of postings ashore and afloat. In 1991 he enrolled at Victoria University of Wellington in 1991 as a mature student to begin to formalize his knowledge of Asia and Classical Studies. He joined the Centre for Strategic Studies in 1996 and after an interesting apprenticeship was appointed Director in 2002 and retired in January 2010. He continues to nurture his fascination and understanding of Asia, in culture and civilization, history, economics, civil society, music and the arts, and of course politics. Within the discipline of Economic History his research interests include maritime strategy, oceans policy, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Indian and Chinese maritime development, security, broadly defined - especially of a non-traditional nature, Southeast Asia and Oceania. Peter is a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington (BA (Hons) in History and MA in Economics) and the Royal Australian Naval Staff College.

Jay L. Batongbacal is an associate professor at the University of the Philippines College of Law and director of the university’s Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea. He was a U.S.-ASEAN Fulbright Initiative Visiting Scholar in Washington, DC, in 2014-2015, assisted the Philippines in pursuing its claim to a continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles in the Benham Rise Region, and is listed as one of the UNESCO/IOC experts for special arbitration under UNCLOS Annex VIII.

Dr. Christopher Len is a Senior Research Fellow at the Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore. He was previously a Research Fellow at the Stockholm-based Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP) where he was responsible for the Energy and Security in Asia Project. His current research interest focuses on Asian energy and maritime security issues, ranging from Asia’s maritime energy supply chain, to the opening of Arctic shipping routes, to China’s rise as a maritime power.

He obtained his PhD from the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) at the University of Dundee in Scotland. He also has degrees from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and Uppsala University, Sweden. Len was also a Visiting Associate under the Energy Programme of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore between 2006 –2012.

Singapore Alternate: Dr. Collin Koh

Andrew Yang is Secretary General of the Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies (CAPS). CAPS primarily focuses on studying and analyzing the strategic and security aspects of the PRC’s domestic and international situation, particularly of cross-strait relations. CAPS has been in charge of organizing the series of PLA international conferences since 1987, which has turned out to be a very important and internationally recognized academic event in security and defense studies around the world.

Mr. Yang received his M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1981, and four years as a Research Associate in Political Economy at Wolfson College, Oxford University (1981-85).

He has served ROC government as Senior Advisor of the National Security Council, Feb. 2015-May 2016; and Minister of the Ministry of National Defense and Vice Minister for Policy, Special Appointment Rank from September, 2009-August, 2013. He has been both the Executive Secretary and a Research Associate with the Sun Yat-sen Center for Policy Studies at National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung since 1986. From 1997-2000 he was the Head of International Collaboration and Exchange at National Sun Yat-sen University. From 2000 to September 2009, he was both a Lecturer and Assistant Professor (2008-2009) at the General Studies of National Sun Yat-sen University.

He is a member of the Heritage’s Asian Studies Center Advisory Council; also serving as a member of the Executive Committee the Atlantic Council’s newly-launched Asia-Pacific Strategy Task Force; and a member of the International Advisory of Council of Project 2049.

Dr Stan Weeks joined Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in 1990, where he remains a consulting employee doing naval and strategic analyses. His prior 24-year career was served in the US Navy (including destroyer command as the flagship captain for NATO's multinational standing naval force, and prior duty coordinating that multinational force's operations from the flagships of admirals of the UK and Dutch Royal Navies). He has extensive strategic and operational planning experience in business, defense, foreign policy, and international and regional security contexts. From October 2007 to March 2013 he also supported the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as an Adjunct Professional Staff Member at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), where his work included the study for OSD on future US force posture and engagement in the Pacific, Defense Planning Scenarios for QDR 2010, enhancing interagency effectiveness, and the outline for a new National Defense Strategy. Independently, he has worked on projects for the Center for a New American Security and the Center for Naval Analyses, and has recently been designated a Visiting Fellow at the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies at the UK Joint Services College.

A 1970 graduate of the US Naval Academy, Dr Weeks attended the University of Madrid, Spain (1974-76) as an Olmsted Scholar (Political Science Doctoral courses and Latin American Studies post-Master's courses.) He holds PhD (1977) and MA (1974) degrees in International Studies from The American University, was a National War College faculty member (Department of Strategy and Joint Military Operations), and from 1994 to 2016 has been an Adjunct Professor of the Naval War College, teaching the National Security Decision Making (NSDM) graduate course (strategy and force planning, and executive leadership) to Washington area students from the military, government agencies, and Congressional staffs. Dr Weeks is the author of the book The Armed Forces of the USA in the Asia-Pacific Region as well as over two dozen chapters and articles in books and journals. He has spoken to over sixty international war colleges, universities, and conferences (most recently in China, Japan, Canada, India, Estonia, Singapore, and Malaysia) on a variety of strategic planning, defense transformation, maritime and regional security topics. Since 1991, Dr Weeks has also been a military and naval analyst for CBS News, participating in dozens of television and radio broadcasts from CBS News New York headquarters during the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 Iraq War.