South China Sea NewsWire Advisory Board
Lucio Blanco Pitlo III is a foreign policy and security analyst specializing on Southeast Asian affairs, maritime security, connectivity and great power competition in the region.
Ray Powell is the Director of SeaLight, a maritime transparency initiative of the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford University. He retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2021 after 35 years, including postings as the Air Attaché to Vietnam and Senior Defense Official/Defense Attaché to Australia.
Sumathy Permal is a Senior Researcher with the Centre for the Straits of Malacca at the Maritime Institute of Malaysia. Her current focus is on strategic and defense issues in the South China Sea and the Strait of Malacca.
Professor Dr. Yann-huei Song obtained his LL.M. and J.S.D degrees from U.C. Berkeley, the United States and Ph.D. degree from Kent State University , Kent, Ohio, the United States. He was a research fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (1993-2021). His research areas include the international law of the sea and national ocean policy. He is now a board member of the Chinese Society of International Law (Taiwan) and the R.O.C. Association for Ocean Policy and Maritime Affairs. He had participated in the Indonesian-hosted Informal Workshop on Managing Potential Conflicts in the South China Sea and visited 7 times of the largest naturally-formed island — Taiping Island (Itu Aba) — of the Spratly archipelago.