Participant Biographies

Khoo Boo Teik

Khoo Boo Teik

Professor, National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies
Session 5 - "Future of Asian Capitalism"

Dr. Khoo is a professor at the National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies in Tokyo. Previously, he was Executive Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies in Japan (2009-2013). He also taught at the Universiti Sains Malaysia in Malaysia and the Universiti Brunei Darusalam in Brunei. Dr. Khoo is the author of Paradoxes of Mahathirism: An Intellectual Biography of Mahathir Mohamad and Beyond Mahathir: Malaysian Politics and its Discontents. He is also editor of Policy Regimes and the Political Economy of Poverty Reduction in Malaysia, and co-editor (with Francis Loh Kok Wah) of Democracy in Malaysia: Discourses and Practices. His latest book (co-edited with Vedi R. Hadiz and Yoshihiro Nakanishi), Between Dissent and Power: The Transformation of Islamic Politics in the Middle East and Asia, will be published in mid-2014. Dr. Khoo earned a B.A. from the University of Rochester, an MCP from MIT, and a Ph.D. from Flinders University.