Dr Helena Varkkey is an Associate Professor of Environmental Politics and Governance at Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. Her areas of expertise include transboundary haze governance in Southeast Asia and global palm oil politics. She was conferred a PhD from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 2013. Her PhD monograph, “The Haze Problem in Southeast Asia: Palm Oil and Patronage” was published by Routledge in 2016.