Debarshee Dasgupta Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering, KIIT University, India; Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning (Major in Environmental Planning) CEPT University, India
Dr Kota Suechika Dr. Kota Suechika is a scholar of Middle Eastern politics, Professor at the College of International Relations, and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (CMEIS) at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan.
Professor Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak This year Professor Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland, is Leverhulme Visiting Professor in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at SOAS and the Centre for Iranian Studies (CIS) at the London Middle East Institute where he will be offering several lectures, completing his research project on the exilic mode in Persian literature, and providing consultation in the process of the expansion and updating of the Department's course offerings and areas of research development.
Professor Robert F Ash China’s economic development in the 20th and 21st centuries; evolution of ‘Greater China’; economic development of Taiwan and cross-Strait economic relations
Professor Wendi Adamek Chinese Buddhism, Buddhist art and archaeology, network theory, phenomenolgy, environmental literature.