🔹 Foreign Affairs, Security & Strategy Analyst | Senior Assistant Registrar, Universiti Malaya 🔹
Collins Chong Yew Keat is a Malaysian foreign affairs, security and strategy analyst in Universiti Malaya, Malaysia’s oldest and highest ranked higher education institution. His profile brings together executive university experience, geopolitical analysis, institutional strategy, foreign affairs foresight, internationalisation, and global media engagement. Based within Malaysia’s leading university, he contributes to global strategic planning, international relations and geopolitical discourse, institutional positioning, global engagement and future-driven advancement in critical sectors.
He is widely recognised for his work on foreign policy, international security, ASEAN affairs, U.S. foreign policy, U.S.–China rivalry, regional power shifts, conflict management and Indo-Pacific strategic dynamics. His publication and media dossier records more than 1,753 publications and appearances across over 206 media and platform headings, reflecting one of the most extensive public-facing analytical footprints among Malaysian commentators in foreign affairs and strategic issues. His work and commentary have appeared across major global, regional and policy platforms including The Washington Post, Financial Times, Associated Press, ABC News, South China Morning Post, The Independent, The Diplomat, Asia Times, The Japan Times, Channel News Asia, WION and NewsX World, among many others.
As a speaker, commentator and public educator, Collins regularly contributes to conferences, forums, media panels and academic engagements, offering strategic insight on geopolitics, diplomacy, international security, great power rivalry and regional risk. His role extends beyond analysis into knowledge translation, helping students, academics, institutions and wider public audiences understand complex global developments and international politics and their implications for Malaysia, ASEAN, the Indo-Pacific, higher education, talent development and future leadership. His insights have also been sought in postgraduate research and by other academics and policymakers on geopolitics, regional security, foreign policy and Indo-Pacific and global affairs.
Within Universiti Malaya, Collins has built a broad institutional portfolio spanning the university’s strategic formulations in critical sectors and global presence, internationalisation, student leadership development and civilisational dialogue. This gives him a distinctive cross-functional profile that connects university governance, institutional reform, international networking, reputation building, student development and policy-facing thought leadership.
His work is anchored in the conviction that universities must act not only as centres of learning, but as strategic national assets that shape talent, ideas, diplomacy, social progress and global influence.
He holds a Master in European Studies from Universiti Malaya and a Bachelor of Arts in International and Strategic Studies with Honours, where he was the highest achiever. He has full professional proficiency in English and Malay, and spoken proficiency in Mandarin and Cantonese, giving him strong cross-cultural reach across academic, institutional, media and international platforms.
Positioned as both a strategic higher education professional and an internationally visible Malaysian analyst, Collins Chong Yew Keat represents a new generation of policy-facing institutional leaders: globally informed, strategically grounded, media-proven and future-driven. His profile combines university transformation, geopolitical insights, academic engagement, public communication and national strategic positioning, making him a distinctive voice in Malaysia’s higher education, foreign policy and global affairs landscape.