Dr. Andrea Malji joined the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS) in January 2025. Before joining DKI APCSS, Dr. Malji served as an Assistant and then Associate Professor of International Studies and Political Science at Hawaii Pacific University (HPU) from 2017-2024.Dr. Malji holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Kentucky with a concentration in International Relations. In 2022 she received the Fulbright-Nehru senior research fellowship and carried out research throughout the state of Kerala in southern India. Dr. Malji has been actively involved in developing teaching strategies to improve learning outcomes, including games, simulations, seminars, and lectures.

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.

Lami Kim joined the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in June 2023. Her research interests are nuclear, emerging technologies and international security, and security issues in East Asia. Her work has appeared in The Washington Quarterly, [...]