Dr. Paul Lim has just recently returned back to Brussels in 2007 and is at the European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS) as its Acting Deputy Director on a voluntary basis.
He was Associate Professor then Visiting Professor at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia, where he taught in the fields of international relations, international political economy and European Studies.
He was responsible for setting up and coordinated the European Studies Programme there which was funded by the European Commission’s Asia Link Programme. In the final months he was its advisor in handing over the responsibility of the programme to his Malaysian successor.
Previous to going to Malaysia in September 2002, he was Senior Research Fellow at the European Institute for Asian Studies, Brussels, of which he was a co-founder in 1989. He was also concurrently a Political Adviser with a political group in the European Parliament advising on Asia since 1987.
During this period working at the European Institute of Asian Studies and at the European Parliament, Dr. Lim had in past been a Maître de Conférence invité at his alma mater, Visiting Lecturer at Songkonghoe University, Seoul, guest lectured at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He had been invited to give one-off lectures at other European universities and in Asian exchange programmes of the European Commission.
Dr. Lim obtained his Doctorat en Sciences du Travail with his focus on labour and political sociology from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
He has presented papers at conferences, symposiums, workshops, summer schools, round-tables, forums, seminars both in Europe and Asia organized by universities, institutes, academic associations, political foundations, trade unions, non-governmental organizations, like the Asia-Europe Peoples’ Forum and ASEF.
The papers he presented mainly turned around ASEM, EU-ASEAN, ASEAN in the framework of the European Union’s External Relations, in particular, with Asia, and of late, on higher education cooperation between Asia and Europe.
His latest publication with David Fouquet is “Constructive engagement and the policy of disposition: Three Case Studies of EU-Asia Policy” in Volume 25: “The European Union and Asia”, eds. by Peter Anderson & Georg Wiessala in “European Studies: An Interdisciplinary Series in European Culture, History and Politics”, 2007, Editions Rodopi BV, Amsterdam.