Dr Lee Hwok Aun is a Senior Fellow and Co-coordinator of the Malaysia Studies Programme at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. His research focuses on inequality, affirmative action, discrimination, labour, and electoral politics. He is the author of Affirmative Action in Malaysia and South Africa: Preference for Parity (2021, Routledge), and numerous articles published in the ISEAS Perspective and ISEAS Trends in Southeast Asia series, and in international refereed journals. He also co-edited Learning from Covid-19 in Southeast Asia: Restriction, Relief, Recovery (forthcoming, ISEAS), Inequality and Exclusion in Southeast Asia: Old Fractures, New Frontiers (2021, ISEAS) and The Defeat of Barisan Nasional: Missed Signs or Late Surge? (2019, ISEAS), and was national consultant for the Malaysia Human Development Report 2013 (2014, UNDP).
