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Sebastian Lim
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Sebastian Lim is the Editor of New Asia Currents and a veteran journalist with over four decades of experience. He was formerly the Entertainment and Lifestyle Editor of theSun daily, the first free newspaper in Malaysia, where he helped shape cultural and lifestyle reporting for many years.
Since retiring from theSun, he has continued to pursue his passion for reading and writing through his personal book review blog. His work reflects and defines a lifelong dedication to storytelling, media, and the evolving landscape of Asian currents.
Dato’ (Dr.) Teoh Seng Lee
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Seng Lee is the Honorary Consul of the Russian Federation based in Penang. He has held this appointment since 1995. He began working with top Russian universities from 1996 and have placed over 3,000 Malaysian students at various universities throughout Russia for tertiary and postgraduate studies; in fields ranging from Sciences to Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Sciences, Medicine, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. With his vast network in the academic circles in Russia, he has also facilitated collaboration and exchanges between Malaysian and Russian institutions of higher learning. Seng Lee is motivated by two powerful quotes: Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world" by Nelson Mandela and “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” by Albert Einstein.
Lim Siang Jin
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LIM SIANG JIN is advisor of New Asia Currents. He has spent much of his career in publishing and journalism at, among others,The Malay Mail, the International Organisation of Consumers Unions (IOCU), ISIS Malaysia and The Edge, of which he was a founder and later Managing Director. He also headed theSun when it was a successful national free daily in the early 2000s. Since the Covid pandemic, however, he has turned a hobby, his art, into a passionate life project. Since 2022, he has held four solo exhibitions and participated in group shows both locally and abroad. In 2024, he began curating at Jin’s Art Gallery. Lim holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Kent at Canterbury and an MA in Sociology of Culture from the University of Leeds, England.
Yusmadi Yusoff
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Yusmadi Yusoff is a lawyer and Senior Partner at Fahda Nur & Yusmadi. He is the founder of the RIGHTS Foundation, an independent regional think tank focusing on governance, human rights, and social justice. He is also the Chairman of Encorp Berhad, a public-listed company in Malaysia, and a former Member of Parliament and Senator.
Internationally, he has been a Humphrey Fellow at American University, Washington D.C., a Democracy and Development Fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), and part of the first cohort of the Lee Kuan Yew Senior Fellows in Public Service at the National University of Singapore.
He also serves as an Interview Panel Member for Schwarzman Scholars at Tsinghua University, contributing to the selection of future global leaders.
Yusmadi is a strong advocate of dialogical leadership, a principle he advances through his research, writings, and policy initiatives. He has written extensively, including his recent book Anwar Ibrahim: Global Justice and Peace Through Dialogue, and actively promotes inter-civilizational dialogue as a foundation for peace and regional cooperation.
As a Member of the Asia Dialogue Society (ADS), Malaysia, he contributes to strengthening ASEAN’s role in fostering dialogue within the region and with the wider world.
Tan Sri Ong Tee Keat
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ONG Tee Keat ( knighted with the Malaysian royal honorifics awards Tan Sri and Datuk ), the founder of both think tank outfits -- namely, The Centre for New Inclusive Asia ( CNIA ) and the Belt and Road Initiative Caucus for Asia Pacific ( BRICAP ), is a multi-faceted personality well equipped with knowledge, connectivity and experience in such sectors as mechanical engineering, geopolitics, Chinese language creative writing and political commentary writing in both Chinese and English.
Prior to the founding of his think tanks in Malaysia, he envisions the necessity for new value creation in shaping a new Asia characterised with openness and inclusiveness in the globalised world. On the home front, Yayasan Bakti Nusa Malaysia ( alternatively known as The Herald Vision Foundation of Malaysia ) was the first NGO founded by him in 1999, evolving from a community-based entity to one that is actively involved in Track 2 diplomacy.
Such ideals are rooted in his 25-year long experience in the Malaysian federal politics through such portfolios as Minister, Deputy Minister and Deputy Speaker of Dewan Rakyat ( Lower House) of Parliament.
Parallel to this, on the international front, he had once been elected to the Executive Council of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association ( CPA), representing the South East Asian region.
Currently he continues to actively contribute to the development of inter-nations, inter-regions bilateral relations through trade, public diplomacy, culture and arts, especially in the Asia-Pacific region.