James Chai is a writer, researcher, and political analyst. His work has been cited internationally by outlets such as CNN, Bloomberg, Washington Post, NBC, Reuters, The Diplomat, Nikkei Asia, South China Morning Post, Business Times, The Straits Times, Phoenix Weekly, The Paper, Taiwan News and others. As columnist for MalaysiaKini and Sin Chew Daily, Malaysia’s largest English and Mandarin news sites respectively, he has written over 250 articles on Malaysia. He is also a regular guest on TV and radio, internationally for media such as Channel News Asia, NPR, Al Jazeera, WION News India; and locally to Astro Awani, Astro AEC, and BFM. During his time as a Visiting Fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, he has also published papers on Malaysia youths’ political inclinations and the structure of political parties in Malaysia. He is also the author of two book chapters on Malaysia’s fourteenth and fifteenth general elections for the same institution.
He holds a graduate degree from the University of Oxford (Best Student) and a first-class law degree from Queen Mary, University of London. He also graduated top of class in the Malaysian legal qualification exam.
Above all, he believes that the most important thing in life is to do interesting things.
