{"id":6786,"date":"2022-01-27T01:59:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T01:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/?post_type=news&#038;p=6786"},"modified":"2022-01-27T02:09:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T02:09:22","slug":"7th-pok-rafeah-chair","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/news\/7th-pok-rafeah-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok Rafeah Distinguished Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Paul-evans.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6787 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Paul-evans-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS) at the National University of Malaysia (UKM) is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Paul Evans as the 7<sup>th<\/sup> Pok Rafeah Chair for the 2022 academic year. Professor Evans is currently the HSBC Chair in Asian Research at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>A specialist in Asian and trans-Pacific international relations, Professor Evans has taught and held visiting appointments at numerous esteemed institutions in Canada, the United States, Australia, and Asia.\u00a0He served as Co-CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation\u00a0of Canada from 2005 to 2008\u00a0and has led research institutes and various partnership and dialogue activities with think tanks and universities in the Asia-Pacific region. He currently serves as a Canadian representative on the ASEAN Regional Forum&#8217;s Experts and and Eminent Person Group.<\/p>\n<p>As the holder of Pok Rafeah Chair at IKMAS, Professor Evans will lead a research project on \u201cMiddle Power Collaboration in Shaping an Indo-Pacific Order.\u201d He will convene a workshop, give a public lecture, as well as lead research-sharing sessions with IKMAS fellows and graduate students.<\/p>\n<p>More about Professor Evans: <a href=\"https:\/\/sppga.ubc.ca\/profile\/paul-evans\/\">https:\/\/sppga.ubc.ca\/profile\/paul-evans\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS) at the National University of Malaysia (UKM) is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Paul Evans<a class=\"ut-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/news\/7th-pok-rafeah-chair\/\"> &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-6786","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/6786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6786"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/6786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6792,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/6786\/revisions\/6792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6786"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=6786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}