Christopher Len
Coordinator, Conflict Management in Northeast Asia Project & Energy and Cooperation Project

Christopher Len graduated from the University of Edinburgh, UK with a MA Joint Honours degree in Philosophy & Politics. He then worked as Project Director in a Singapore market research firm doing consultancy work on social and market trends before leaving to pursue another Masters degree in
the Peace and Conflict Research Department at Uppsala University in Sweden. He is presently Coordinator for the Silk Road Studies' Energy and Cooperation as well as the Conflict Management in Northeast Asia projects. In addition, he is Assistant Editor for the China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly journal.

Christopher Len is also the Central Asia editor for a new journal called the Shingetsu Electronic Journal of Japanese-Islamic Relations (SEJJIR), published by the Japan-based Shingetsu Institute which focuses on Japan's relations with the Islamic world. He is also currently a Visiting Associate at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore.

In 2000, he co-founded a community project in Kosovo for the local ethnic Roma minority focusing on post-conflict ethnic reconciliation between the Roma and the Albanian communities. On the side, in late 2006, together with four fellow Singaporeans, he completed a documentary called I Love Malaya (Asia Witness Production), about ex-Malayan communists presently exiled in Thailand .

Publications

Monographs

Christopher Len (with Johan Alvin), Burma/Myanmar's Ailments: Searching for the Right Remedy, Uppsala & Washington: CACI & SRSP Silk Road Paper, March 2007.

Articles

Christopher Len, "Japan's Central Asian Diplomacy: Motivations, Implications and Prospects for the Region ", China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, vol. 3 no. 3, November 2005.

Book Chapters

Christopher Len, “Energy Security Cooperation in Asia: An ASEAN-SCO Energy Partnership?” in Mark Hong and Teo Kah Beng, eds., Energy Perspectives on Singapore and the Region, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), 2007. pp. 156-175. [To be republished by Oil, Gas and Energy Law Intelligence (OGEL)]

Christopher Len, "Energy Security in East Asia: Challenges and Responses," The Emerging Regional Architecture in East Asia (Tentative title), IMEMO-ISEAS publication. To be published in 2007.

Christopher Len, "Regional Cooperation in Central Asia and Japan's Belated Regional Initiative," Russia and Central Asia: Energy, Security and Development (Tentative title). Submitted (May 30 2006) to the Centre for Russian, Central Asian & East European Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. (Publication date to be confirmed).

Op-eds

Christopher Len, "The Nexus Between Chinese Development, Population Growth and Energy Demand," The Green Cross Optimist, Winter 2006/2007.

Christopher Len, "The Growing Importance of Japan's Engagement in Central Asia", The Power and Interest News Report, 17 February, 2006.

Translations

Zhao Huasheng, "The Shanghai Cooperation Organization at 5: Achievements and Challenges Ahead," China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, vol. 4 no. 3, August 2006. (Translated from Chinese into English by Christopher Len - 7600 English words)

Others

I Love Malaya, A Documentary Film by Chan Kah Mei, Ho Choon Hiong, Eunice Lau, Christopher Len & Wang EngEng, Asia Witness Production, 25 November 2006 (Premiere).

Christopher Len (With Corinna Lim), Beyond Youth: Women Growing Older and Poorer , AWARE-TSAO Position Paper, Singapore, February 14 2005.

Christopher Len, "Kosovo - A Political Update," Nomad Travel Magazine , Edinburgh, UK, Issue 2, February 2001.