Simon SC Tay is chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, the country’s oldest think tank and founding member of the ASEAN network of think-tanks. An independent, civic institution, the SIIA is ranked by an international survey a leading think tank in Asia and advised the Myanmar government on its ASEAN chairmanship in 2014. He is concurrently a tenured associate professor, teaching international law at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. His book, Asia Alone: the Dangerous Post Crisis Divide from America (Wiley 2010) was well reviewed in the Economist, Financial Times and regional media.