Brian Eyler is the Deputy Director of the Stimson Center’s Southeast Asia program. Eyler is an expert on transboundary issues in the Mekong region and specializes in China’s economic cooperation with Southeast Asia. He has spent more than 15 years living and working in China and over the last ten years has conducted extensive research with stakeholders in the Mekong region, leading numerous study tours through China and mainland Southeast Asia as Director of International Education Programs for IES Abroad. He holds a MPIA from the University of California, San Diego, and a B.A. from Bucknell University. Eyler is the co-founder of the website East by Southeast, and his upcoming book, The Last Days of the Mighty Mekong, will be published by Zed Books in 2017.