Contributors

Prevail Volume 50, Issue 1, 2025

RETIRED REPUBLIC OF KOREA (ROK) ARMY LT. GEN. IN-BUM CHUN holds advisory roles for the National Bureau of Asian Research, the Korea Foundation, the Association of the United States Army, and the Sweden-based Institute for Security and Development Policy. He served as director of U.S. affairs at the South Korean Ministry of National Defense and at all command levels, including the ROK Special Warfare Command.  Featured on Page 38

BRIG. GEN. ONISIVORO COVUNISAQA enlisted in the Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) in July 1984 and graduated from Officer Cadet School in 1991. He is the RFMF Commander Land Force and Chief of Staff Territorial Force Brigade. His prior appointments include aide-de-camp to Fiji’s vice president, battalion officer, infantry commander and training major. His honors and awards include the Republic of Fiji 50th Anniversary Independence Medal, the Meritorious Service Decoration and international peacekeeping medals including the Multinational Force and Observers Medal.  Featured on Page 42

LT. GEN. SIMON STUART assumed command of the Australian Army in July 2022. He enlisted in 1987 and was commissioned into the Royal Australian Infantry Corps in 1990. He has experience across leadership, operations, training and program management appointments in Australia and overseas. His honors and awards include Member of the Order of Australia in 2011, the Distinguished Service Cross in 2014 and advancement to Officer of the Order of Australia in 2020. He also has been honored by partner nations including Colombia, the Czech Republic, Indonesia, Japan, Timor-Leste, Uruguay and the U.S.  Featured on Page 46

Next-Generation Threats Volume 49, Issue 4, 2024

REPUBLIC OF KOREA (ROK) ARMY BRIG. GEN. WOO SUK JAE is the Combined Forces Command (CFC) deputy chief of staff for combined and joint plans. He was formerly chief of the ROK Joint Chiefs of Staff operations branch and command and control team, and commanding officer of the ROK 121st Infantry Regiment. Woo also served as an operations officer, planner and chief, a crisis management officer, and security battalion commanding officer. He has a bachelor’s degree in management from the Korea Military Academy, a master’s in politics from Korea University and completed an advanced leadership program at the Seoul National University School of Law.

ROK ARMY COL. JUNG HEE HYOUNG is the CFC strategy chief for combined and joint plans. A former commander of the ROK Army Training Center’s 26th Regiment, she has served as an officer in the ROK Army’s Personnel Command and managed global policy, security cooperation and defense diplomacy policy for the ROK Ministry of National Defense. She has a bachelor’s degree in the English language from Chonnam National University, a master’s in logistics and supply chain management from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and a doctorate in business administration from Myongji University.

ROK ARMY COL. KIM YONG IL is the CFC exercise branch chief. His previous roles include chief of the policy branch in the CFC division commander’s office, chief of staff for the 60th division and infantry brigade commander. He was also a planning officer in the CFC, a situation leader in the National Center for Crisis Management, a battalion commander and officer in the Joint Chiefs of Staff strategic planning division. Kim has a master’s degree in management from the Korea National Defense University.  Featured on Page 32

ROSAURO ANGELO RODRIGUEZ is a global security, investigation and operational risk management executive in the Philippines and the founder and CEO of PAD1925 Consultancy. A graduate of the Philippine Military Academy, he develops simulation technology for the Armed Forces of the Philippines. He has a certificate in geopolitics and international relations from the Development Academy of the Philippines and is a doctoral candidate at Bicol University in the Philippines. He has served as a citizen services warden at the U.S. Embassy in Manila and as dean of the School of Criminal Justice at Manuel L. Quezon University in the Philippines.  Featured on Page 36

DR. SHALE HOROWITZ is a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has researched international and ethnic conflict, with an emphasis on East and South Asia; the politics of international trade and finance; and the politics of market transition and institutional change in post-communist countries and East Asia. He has conducted research in China, India, South Korea, Taiwan, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.  Featured on Page 50

Enduring Partnerships Volume 49, Issue 3, 2024

LT. COL. ALEXANDER S. PARK is an Army Fellow at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. He began his military career in the Republic of Korea Army in 2001 and joined the Army National Guard of the United States in 2005 through Pennsylvania State University’s Simultaneous Membership Program. As an Active Guard Reserve Army Strategist, he has served as chief of overseas deployment training for the 8th Army at Camp Humphreys, South Korea, as well as a budget officer, plans officer and detachment commander. He graduated from the Basic Strategic Art Program at the U.S. Army War College and earned master’s degrees from Syracuse University in addition to bachelor’s degrees from Pennsylvania State and Korea University in Seoul. Featured on Page 8

Dr. Ganeshan Wignaraja is the professorial fellow in economics and trade at Gateway House in Mumbai, India, and a visiting senior fellow at ODI in London. He is an advisor to the Sri Lankan president and a Geopolitical Cartographer board member. Previous senior roles include research director at the Asian Development Bank Institute, executive director of Sri Lanka’s Foreign Ministry think tank, visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund and global head of trade and competitiveness at Maxwell Stamp PLC. Wignaraja has consulted for the U.S. Commerce Department, the U.S. State Department and USAID. He has written about macroeconomics, economic development and geoeconomics and has a doctorate degree in economics from Oxford University.  Featured on Page 32

LT. STEPHEN SCHROEDER is a U.S. Navy helicopter pilot serving as an international engagements and partnership liaison for the U.S. Space Command in the Indo-Pacific. He is a member of the Joint Integrated Space Team Pacific, based at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Headquarters in Hawaii, and his operational experience includes two deployments to the Middle East as an aircraft commander aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group. He participated in negotiations for a Space Situational Awareness Data Sharing Agreement with the Philippines and has provided expertise on opportunities in space to partners including Singapore and Thailand. He earned his bachelor’s degree in English from the U.S. Naval Academy.  Featured on Page 46 

FALK TETTWEILER is a researcher and analyst in the Research and Policy Analysis Department at the George C. Marshall Center. His work focuses on strategic narratives and the cognitive dimension of strategic competition. He also serves as co-chair in the Emerging Security Challenges Working Group of the Partnership for Peace Consortium. He previously served as deputy director of the Marshall Center’s Plans and Strategy Directorate.  Featured on Page 58

Security Assurances Volume 49, Issue 2, 2024

MAJ. AFUA O. BOAHEMA-LEE is a joint medical planner for the Command Surgeon’s Office of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. She enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve in 2004 as a food specialist and was commissioned as a Medical Service Corps officer in 2009. She has extensive experience in medical planning and operations, humanitarian assistance, and team building, and has held leadership positions including commander, medical operations officer and branch chief. She completed a military fellowship with the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawaii, and earned a bachelor’s degree in biology education, a master’s in health care administration from Trident University, and a master’s in defense and strategic studies from the U.S. Naval War College.
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DR. DEON CANYON, dean of academics and a professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI-APCSS), specializes in crisis management, biosecurity, the Pacific Islands region and gray-zone gaming. His cross-disciplinary research focuses on understanding, managing, controlling and preventing complex and dynamic security threats through innovative approaches. He has authored over 240 publications during his 29 years at DKI-APCSS and other U.S. and Australian universities.   

DR. BENJAMIN RYAN is a professor of public health and global initiatives at the Thomas F. Frist, Jr. College of Medicine at Belmont University in Tennessee, with expertise in disaster risk reduction and community resilience. He has assisted organizations such as the United Nations and World Health Organization in addressing disasters and disease, and co-developed a program that has helped over 4,000 communities worldwide prepare for disasters. He previously was an associate professor at DKI-APCSS.  Featured on Page 56

Strategic Shifts Volume 49, Issue 1, 2024

DR. ALFRED OEHLERS joined the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in 2007. He previously was an associate professor at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He earned his doctorate in political economy from the University of Sydney and holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in economics from Macquarie University, Australia. Specializing in the political economy of economic growth and development in the Indo-Pacific, he teaches and writes extensively on a range of issues, many connected with the rapid advances of East and Southeast Asia as well as the Pacific Islands region.  Featured on Page 8

BRAHMA CHELLANEY is a geostrategist, scholar, author and commentator. He is a professor of strategic studies at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi; a Richard von Weizsäcker fellow of the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin; and an affiliate with the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College London. He has served as a member of the Policy Advisory Group headed by the foreign minister of India. Before that, he was an advisor to India’s National Security Council, serving as convener of the External Security Group of the National Security Advisory Board.  Featured on Page 20

DR. JINGHAO ZHOU is an associate professor of Asian studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York. His research focuses on Chinese ideology, politics, religion, and U.S.-China relations. He has published dozens of journal and news articles and six books. His latest book, “Great Power Competition as the New Normal of China-U.S. Relations,” published in 2023.   Featured on Page 42

DR. JENNIFER DABBS SCIUBBA is a senior associate (nonresident) with the Hess Center for New Frontiers at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a global fellow at the Wilson Center, both in Washington, D.C. In addition to writing academic articles on the politics of population, she is the author of “8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World” and “The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security.” She trained at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and has worked for the U.S. Department of Defense on demographic and environmental issues.   Featured on Page 48

DR. JAKE WALLIS formerly led the Information Operations and Disinformation program with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s (ASPI) International Cyber Policy Centre, where he worked with international government entities, civil society and social media platforms to counter disinformation by state and nonstate actors. His doctorate explored how politically motivated groups mobilize across online networks. He has researched extremist groups’ use of social media under the Australian Army Research and Development Scheme and contributed to NATO’s Innovation Hub. His analysis of large-scale disinformation and propaganda campaigns linked to the People’s Republic of China has been featured in publications worldwide.  Featured on Page 52