Michael Montesano

Michael Montesano is Coordinator of the Thailand and Myanmar Studies Programmes at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. He is co-editor of After the Coup: The National Council for Peace and Order Era and the Future of Thailand (2019) and of Praetorians, Profiteers or Professionals? Studies on the Militaries of Myanmar and Thailand (2020). Michael served as a United States Peace Corps volunteer in Phang Nga Province, South Thailand (1983-1985) and has been a visiting researcher at Thammasat, Chulalongkorn, and Walailak Universities. He was educated at Yale, the University of the Philippines at Los Baños, and Cornell.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Cornell University (1989 — 1998)
• Master of Arts - MA Cornell University (1989 — 1991)
• Master of Science - MS Cornell University (1987 — 1991)
• Diploma in Agriculture University of the Philippines Los Baños (1986 — 1987)
• Bachelor's degree Yale University (1979 — 1983)
• Nichols School, Buffalo, New York (1971 — 1979)
• Elmwood Franklin School, Buffalo, New York (1964 — 1971)

Companies

• Visiting Senior Fellow; Coordinator, Thailand and Myanmar Studies Programmes ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute (ISEAS) (2014)
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• Visiting Research Fellow ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute (ISEAS) (2008 — 2014)
• Assistant Professor, Southeast Asian Studies Programme National University of Singapore (1999 — 2008)
• Assistant Professor Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (1998 — 1999)
• Junior Scholar Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University (1996 — 1998)
• United States Peace Corps Volunteer, secondary school teacher Thap Put Witthaya School (1983 — 1985)

Skills

• Microsoft Excel
• Policy
• English

Other

Microsoft Office, Project Management, Analysis, Data Analysis, Science, Public Policy, Teaching, Policy Analysis, Qualitative Research, Research