DIRECTOR, AWLP MALAYSIA BERHAD; FACULTY MEMBER, AWLUC

Contact: johan@awlu.org

B. Soc. Sci. University of Singapore, MA, PhD (University of British Columbia)

Dr. Saravanamuttu is Professor Emeritus of Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Adjunct Professor at Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya and Adjunct Senior Fellow, RSIS, Nanyang Technological University (2016-2023). He was Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore from 2007-2013. In 1997, he was Visiting Chair of ASEAN and International Studies at the Centre for International Studies (CIS), University of Toronto. He has published extensively on Malaysia, its foreign policy, the middle class, general elections, the New Economic Policy and political Islam. His publications include: Malaysia’s Foreign Policy, the First 50 Years: Alignment, Neutralism, Islamism, Singapore: ISEAS 2010, Power Sharing in a Divided Nation: Mediated Communalism and New Politics over Six Decades of Elections in Malaysia, Singapore: ISEAS 2016, The New Economic Policy in Malaysia: Affirmative Action, Ethnic Inequalities and Social Justice, NUS Press 2012 (co-editor with Terence Gomez), Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia, London: Routledge, 2010 (editor), New Politics in Malaysia. Singapore: ISEAS 2003 (co-editor with Francis Loh Kok Wah), The Cambodian Conflict 1979-1991: From Intervention to Resolution, Research and Education for Peace, USM, Dept of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, 1996 (co-author with Peter Wallensteen and Ramses Amer), The Dilemma of Independence: Two Decades of Malaysia’s Foreign Policy 1957-1977, Penang: USM Press, 1983.