Fellows

Structure and Organisation

The Academy is administered by ab Executive Director assisted by a Company Secretary and a Financial Controller. The Executive Director is appointed by a Board of Directors consisting of a maximum of four prominent individuals, two Malaysian and two non-Malaysian from other international organisations concerned with research and development. Currently the academy has 11 members who are conferred the titles of ‘senior’, honorary, ordinary fellows and members. The Academy promotes collaborative research publications and networking among fellows and members through participation in international meetings, dialogues, seminars and conferences.

Executive Director
Prof. Dr. Wazir Jahan Karim (LSE)

Directors
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Razha Rashid (Toronto)
Dr. Shakila Menon
Prof. Maurice Bloch

Company Secretary
Ch’ng Lee Chee
Well Corporate Services Snd. Bhd.

Financial Controller
Tan Kim Hong

Web Master
Teh How Kiat

FELLOWS OF THE ACADEMY

Senior Fellows

Prof. Dr. Wazir Jahan Karim (LSE)
Economic Anthropologist
(Globalisation, Gender, Social and Economic Transformation)

Dr. Farid Alatas (John Hopkins University)
Political Sociologist
(Modernity, Political Systems, Islam)

Prof. Hood Salleh (Oxen)
Social Anthropologist
(Environmental Economics, Cultural Minorities)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Razha Rashid (Toronto)
Cultural Anthropologist
(Political Values, Networks, Information and Communication Systems)

Fellows

Dr. Shakila Manan (National University of Malaysia)
Linguist
(Stylistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, English Language and Literature)

Dr. Hajar Abdul Rahim (University of Reading)
Linguist
(Semantics, Corpus Linguistics and TESL)

Honorary Fellows/Member

Prof. Syed Hussein Alatas (University of Amsterdam) - Fellow
Political Sociologist
(Modernity, Socio-Economic Transformation, Values)

Madane Lim Pao Lin (University of Manchester) – Member
(Educational and Ethnic Policy)

Javed Jabbar (Pakistan) – Member
Media Sp.
(Politics, Islam, Globalisation)