Dr. Cho, Wondeuk is currently a research professor of the Center of ASEAN-Indian Studies at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS), Korea National Diplomatic Academy (KNDA). He is also a visiting professor teaching ASEAN regionalism and ASEAN and OCEANIA at Yonsei University. His main research topics consist of international relations of Indo-Pacific region, especially the Mekong Subregion and South Asia including India, and US policy in the Indo-Pacific. His recent articles were published in Defence and Peace Economics (SSCI), Pacific Focus (SSCI), and other Korean international relations journals including National Strategy(국가전략), Journal of Northeast Asia Research(동북아연구), Korean Political Science Review, etc.