Dr. Choong Pui Yee

Non-resident Fellow of RCAS

Email: puiyee.choong@um.edu.my

Dr. Choong Pui Yee is Non-resident Fellow at Research Centre for Asian Studies(RCAS), China, as well as senior lecturer at the University of Malaya, Malaysia. She received her PhD from Monash University Malaysia. She has held a research position at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and had served as a Senior Analyst and Coordinator of the History and Regional Studies Programme at Penang Institute, Malaysia. She has also served as the Head of Research of a think tank affiliated with a political party in Malaysia. She has published several commentaries and book chapters on political issues in Malaysia. Besides that, she has also worked on several state government projects where she provided policy recommendations for the state government. Currently, she is a senior lecturer at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Malaysia, where she teaches ASEAN and Regionalism and Politics and Governance of Southeast Asia. Her research interests include social movements, contentious politics, Malaysia's domestic politics, and security issues in Southeast Asia.

Recent Publications

<Dwindling Political Trust and Democratic Decline in Malaysia>