Kavi Chongkittavorn is currently a senior fellow at Chulalongkorn University’s Institute of Security and International Studies. He is a veteran journalist who has been covering Thai and regional politics for more than three and a half decades. He has served in key roles such as Advisor to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Special Assistant to the Secretary General of ASEAN, Editor-in-Chief and Executive Director of Myanmar Times, after having served as the newspaper’s Bureau Chief in Phnom Penh and, subsequently, in Hanoi. He was a Reuters Fellow at Oxford University, a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and an Asia Studies Fellow at the East-West Center in Washington, D.C. Kavi received his Journalism degrees from Beloit College and, subsequently, Columbia University.