Amitav Acharya is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Distinguished Professor at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC. Previously, he was the Professor of International Relations at York University, Toronto and Professor of Global Governance at the University of Bristol, U.K. He was also a Fellow of Harvard University’s Asia Center, Research Fellow at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Christensen Fellow at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. Acharya has taught in several Southeast Asian universities such as National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Chulalongkorn University and Yangon University. He is currently Honorary Professor at Rhodes University, South Africa, Guest Professor at Nankai University, China, Visiting Chair Professor at the Taipei School of Economics and Political Science, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Schwarzman Scholars Program, Tsinghua University, China. He the first non-Western scholar to be elected (for 2014-15) as the President of the International Studies Association (ISA), the largest and most influential global network in international studies.

His books include The Making of Southeast Asia (Cornell 2013); The End of American World Order (Polity 2014, 2018, translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Bahasa Indonesia); and Constructing Global Order (Cambridge 2018). His latest books are Tragic Nation Burma (Penguin Random House 2023) and ASEAN and Regional Order (Routledge 2021, Thai language edition by Thammasat University Press, 2023); and From Southeast Asia to Indo-Pacific: Culture, Identity and the Return of Geopolitics (Penguin Random House 2025); and The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West (Basic Books, 2025). He has written for Financial Times, Jakarta Post, Bangkok Post, Straits Times, Washington Post and Australian Financial Review.