Jack Meng-Tat Chia is the Foo Hai Fellow in Buddhist Studies and an Associate Professor of History at the National University of Singapore. He serves as the founding chair of the Buddhist Studies Group and the convenor of the GL Louis Religious Pluralism Research Cluster at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS.
Jacqueline F. Espenilla is the Director of The University of the Philippines’ Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea, and Assistant Professor at The University of the Philippines College of Law.