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Dr Prashanth Parameswaran is a senior fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the founder of the weekly ASEAN Wonk newsletter on Southeast Asia and Indo-Pacific geopolitics and geoeconomics.
Born and raised in Southeast Asia, he is also an instructor at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, an advisor at the BowerGroupAsia consultancy and a senior columnist at The Diplomat magazine. He is the author of over 2,000 commentaries and two books: Mandalas of Multialignment: Hedging Bets in Southeast Asia Grand Strategy Spheres and Global Geopolitics and Geoeconomics (2026) and Elusive Balances: Shaping US Southeast Asia Strategy (2022).