DR. SUMATHY PERMAL
Sumathy Permal is a Senior Fellow and Head, Centre for Maritime Security and Diplomacy with the Maritime Institute of Malaysia. Ms. Premal’s research areas are on geo-politic and geo-strategic in the Asia Pacific and maritime security issues in the Indo Pacific. Sumathy Permal is on the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean Affairs Australia and Associate Member of the Corbett Centre, King’s College, United Kingdom for Maritime Policy Studies. She is in the Board of Studies (2022-2024) of Faculty of Science Social, University Malaya. She was also the International Expert Panel for National Bureau of Asian Research and the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA on Maritime Awareness Program, 2016. She is a Professional Fellow On- Demand Exchange Program by the U.S. Department of State for Think-Tank in Asia, and a columnist of New Straits Times.
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