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• Further Information: If you would like to know more about how we work, who we are and what others are saying about us, visit our About page, in addition to contacting us at aseanwonk@gmail.com. Below are a couple of early testimonials about our work:

“Fortunately we now have Dr. Prashanth Parameswaran’s ASEAN Wonk BulletBrief which offers nuanced and sophisticated weekly analyses of key issues and trends; a ‘must-read’ for policy-makers, scholars and students interested in Southeast Asia.”

— Bilahari Kausikan, former Singapore Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Ambassador to Russia

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— Scot Marciel, former U.S. Ambassador to ASEAN, Indonesia and Myanmar and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs