Dr. Timothy Buehrer was a professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS) from September 2020 to March 2024, when he retired from full-time teaching. While at DKI APCSS, his research and teaching focused on statecraft, economics and security, ASEAN, Oceania, Indonesia, and China.
Before joining DKI APCSS, Buehrer spent more than 30 years working as an economist and attorney advising governments and organizations in Southeast Asia, Micronesia, Africa, the Middle East, and the United States. For more than a decade, he directed a series of USAID projects supporting regional integration in Southeast Asia through the ASEAN Secretariat. Earlier in his career, Buehrer supported ministries of finance, trade, and planning in the Federated States of Micronesia, Indonesia, Mozambique, and Egypt on trade, macroeconomic, monetary policy, exchange rate, poverty, institutional development, and customs issues.
Buehrer earned Bachelor of Science degrees in chemistry and political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School; a Master in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; and a Ph.D. in public policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and the Supreme Court.
