Dr Yeo Lay Hwee, is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs and also with the European Union Centre. She is also Adjunct Research Fellow in the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies and International Fellow at the Contemporary Europe Research Centre (CERC), University of Melbourne, and teaches part time at the National University of Singapore. An international relations expert, she participates actively both in policy dialogue, research and in academic workshops and conferences. Her research interests revolve around comparative regionalism; ASEAN and EU; and the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) process. Some of her recent publications include “Asia and Europe: The Development and Different Dimensions of ASEM”; “The Eurasian Space: Far More than two Continents”; “EU-ASEAN Relations and Policy Learning”; “The ASEAN Security Community: Towards Preventive Diplomacy and Institutionalised Security Cooperation”; “Japan, ASEAN and the construction of an East Asian Community”. For her exemplary record in research and policy work on regionalism and Asia-Europe / ASEAN-EU relations, she was awarded the Nakasone Yasuhiro Award in June 2007. She had also been awarded various short term visiting fellowships and scholarships taking her to Brussels, Leiden and Aalborg.