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YEAR
2025

department of international and strategic studiess
d e p a r t m e n t o f i n t e r n a t i o n a l a n d s t r a t e g i c s t u d i e

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Climate Governance
Land Use Change in Southeast Asia
Global Politics of Palm Oil

RESEARCH KEYWORDSS
Haze pollution; ASEAN; Palm oil; Peatlands;
Climate change

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Varkkey, H. et al. (2025). ‘Seasons of the
associate prof. dr. Anthropocene’: Politicization of the haze season in
HELENA MUHAMAD VARKKEY Southeast Asia. Singapore Journal of Tropical
Geography, 46(1).
helenav@um.edu.my O'Reilly, P. & Varkkey, H. (Eds.) (2025) Governing
the Palm Oil Industry: Perspectives from Southeast
EDUCATION Asia and Latin America. London: Routledge.
Varkkey, H. (2021) The Forests for the Palms:
PhD (International Relations) Essays on the Politics of Haze and the Environment
University of Sydney, Australia in Southeast Asia. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing.
Varkkey, H. (2016). The Haze Problem in Southeast
MIntS (Merit) (International Studies) Asia: Palm Oil and Patronage. Oxon: Routledge.
University of Sydney, Australia

BCom (Hons) (Corporate Communication)
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
UMEXPERT LINK Chairholder, Prince Claus Chair of Equity and
https://umexpert.um.edu.my/helenav.html Development 2025-2027, International Institute of
Social Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Fellow, Indo-Pacific Leadership Lab 2024-2025,
RESEARCHER ID East-West Centre and Japan Foundation.
IZP-8781-2023 (Web of Science) University Malaya Excellence Awards 2023 -
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4622-0450 Excellent Young Researcher (Humanities and
Social Sciences).
Chief Editor for Academy Sains Malaysia Local and
SCOPUS ID Transboundary Haze Study 2018; Technical Writer
55557104500 for UNICEF Impact of Climate Change on Children
Report 2021.

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