The map below shows the location of all of our international partners and collaborators, including those in addition to the official partners listed below.
Professor, Universitas Gadjah Mada
Dr Nur Rachmat Yuliantoro is a full professor in the Department of International Relations at Universitas Gadjah Mada. He has studied Chinese foreign policy as one of his areas of research since 2004. His current focus is the development of the Belt and Road Initiative in Indonesia. He can be reached at nur.rachmat@ugm.ac.id.
Assistant Professor, Universitas Gadjah Mada
Dr Maharani Hapsari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Social and Political Science, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. She has a Master’s degree and a PhD from the Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University, Japan. Her research interests cover knowledge co-production in sustainability transition and the political economy of development.
Assistant Professor, Universitas Gadjah Mada
Dr Randy Wirasta Nandyatama is an Assistant Professor and head of the Undergraduate Programme in the Department of International Relations at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. He received his PhD in 2019 from the University of Melbourne. His research interests span global governance, human rights, ASEAN, and Sino-Southeast Asia relations.
Associate Professor, Fudan University
Dr Bowen Yu is an Associate Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs of Fudan University. He is also an associate editor of Chinese Political Science Review and an affiliated researcher at the Environmental Governance Lab of the University of Toronto. His research focuses on international organisation, global development, global environmental governance, and international relations theory.
Associate Professor, University of Dhaka
Dr Muhammad Badrul Hasan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Dhaka. He completed his PhD on water governance in Bangladesh at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His research interests include environmental governance, common resource management, disaster and groundwater governance, and climate change impact.
Visiting Fellow, SDPI
Dr Hina Aslam is a Senior Research Fellow at ANU’s College of Law, Governance and Policy and a Visiting Fellow at SDPI. She holds a PhD in Ecology and has more than a decade of experience in natural resource management, climate policy, energy transition, and sustainability governance. Committed to global sustainability goals, Dr Hina focuses on regulatory frameworks that support decarbonisation and resilient, sustainable transitions across regions. A leader in green development, she has spearheaded transformative programmes, including the Green CPEC Alliance and clean energy initiatives.
Head of Energy Unit, SDPI
Ubaid ur Rehman Zia is a mechanical engineer specialising in energy systems, currently leading the clean energy transition and CPEC Green Development Programme at SDPI. His areas of expertise include energy forecasting, short- and long-term planning through LEAP and MARKAL/TIMES, investigating and identifying the impact of policy decisions, designing modelling frameworks for both short- and long-term energy planning, and spearheading key projects.
Research Fellow, SDPI
Dr Khalid Waleed holds a PhD in energy economics. With more than 12 years of experience, his expertise includes energy transition at macro and micro levels. He advocates for tailored approaches that cater to specific energy needs and consumption patterns, empowering individuals and communities to participate actively in the acceleration of renewable energy and broader transition efforts.
Co-founder and Director of Causal Map Ltd.
With more than 25 years of experience in global research and evaluation, Steve has led projects from post-tsunami psychosocial programming to East African community resilience. He holds a PhD in psychology on post-war trauma in Bosnia-Herzegovina. As co-founder of Causal Map Ltd., Steve is dedicated to enhancing the collection and synthesis of people’s ideas about what influences what.
Co-founder and Director of Causal Map Ltd.
Fiona is a communications and research professional with expertise in applying academic research in international development. She has held key global roles, including at Sri Lanka’s Centre for Poverty Analysis. Co-author of the QuIP and co-founder of Bath SDR Ltd., Fiona works with Steve to apply her experience from causal mapping QuIP data to the design of Causal Map.