Geoffrey Robinson, UCLA associate professor of history and former director of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asia Studies, is a specialist on Indonesia and Southeast Asian history.

 

He is also a former researcher with Amnesty International and the author of three volumes on human rights and political violence in Southeast Asia. In 1999, he served as a United Nations political affairs officer during the UN-supervised elections in Indonesian-occupied East Timor.

 

An expert on U.S. foreign policy in Southeast Asia, Robinson has expertise on the impact of the 2004 tsunami, political violence in East Timor, and the roots and significance of non-violence movements in Burma, East Timor and other nations in the region. In addition, his research has focused on the history of Cambodia, especially the decades following the rise to power of the Khmer Rouge, and the Cambodian American community.