Muthiah Alagappa (Dato’ Dr.) is non-resident Senior Associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. Effective December 1, 2015 he will also be visiting Professor in University Malaya. Dr. Alagappa was the inaugural Tun Hussein Onn Chair in International Studies at ISIS Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (2011-12). Prior to that he was Distinguished Senior Fellow at the East-West Center, director of the integrated research program in East-West Center Honolulu, and founding director of East-West Center Washington. He has held visiting professorships in Columbia University, Stanford University, Keio University, and the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He was Leverhulme visiting professor in Bristol University in 2008 and the Kippenberger Visiting Chair in the School of Government, Victoria University, New Zealand in 2010-11.

Prior to his academic career, from 1960 to 1982 Dr. Alagappa served as a regular commissioned officer in the Malaysian Armed Forces. During his military career Dr. Alagappa commanded three signals regiments and held numerous line and staff positions including the army representative in the Defense Planning Staff in the Malaysian Ministry of Defense.

Graduating from the Federation Military College, Dr. Muthiah Alagappa has a Ph.D. degree in International affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and an M.A. degree in Politics from the University of Lancaster. He attended the Britidh Army Staff College in Camberlet, UK in 1973-74. Dr. Alagappa’s early schooling was in the Federation Military College, Clifford School, and Gandhi Memorial Tamil School, all in Malaysia.