Benjamin YH Loh
James Chin is a professor of Asian Studies at the University of Tasmania. He was the inaugural director of the Asia Institute Tasmania and the founding head of the School of Arts and Social Sciences of the Malaysian campus of Monash University. He is also a senior fellow at the Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia, and was a senior visiting fellow at Singapore’s Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (now the ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute). He is widely regarded as the leading scholar of contemporary Malaysian politics, especially on Sabah and Sarawak. Prior to an academic career, he worked as a journalist in Malaysia and Singapore.


