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Dr. Andrea Malji joined the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS) in January 2025. Before joining DKI APCSS, Malji served as an assistant professor, associate professor, and department chair of international studies and political science at Hawaiʻi Pacific University. Malji holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Kentucky with a concentration in international relations. She specializes in geopolitics, small states, South Asia, and international security. At DKI APCSS, she also oversees fellow projects.

Special Agent Michael Mayo joined the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in 2024 after serving as Division Chief for Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Pacific Operations. Special Agent Mayo began his career in 2008 at the NCIS Southwest Field Office in San Diego, CA, conducting counterintelligence and felony criminal investigations on behalf of the Department of the Navy (DON) and U.S. Marine Corps. Throughout his career, Special Agent Mayo was responsible for investigating and supervising investigations for criminal, counterintelligence, force protection, and terrorism matters involving Navy and USMC equities, service members, and affiliated civilian personnel assigned to DON installations, ships, and expeditionary forces in both domestic and international assignments. Special Agent Mayo holds a B.A. in Government and Political Science from Berry College and a M.A. in International Relations/Foreign Policy from Georgia State University. He obtained an M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College (in-residence, with Distinction), and holds a Harvard University certificate in Political Philosophy.