Associated Fellow

Dr. Robert E. Bedeski is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, and Program Professor Emeritus for Human Security and Peace in the Asia-Pacific Region at the University's Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives. He is also Honorary Professor at the University of British Columbia's Institute of Asian Research. In 2008, he was appointed to the Aung San Suu Kyi Endowed Chair in Asian Democracy at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. He is also Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm, Sweden, where he has recently authored two papers on Mongolia. Dr. Bedeski received both his MA in Asian Studies and his PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He was the first non-Japanese research fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies in Tokyo in 1980-81.