ARC aims to be the center of intellectual activity in Southeast Asia by conducting impactful research on topics surrounding emerging markets in the ASEAN region.

ARC extends our gratitude to Maybank for their endowment and support in making our work possible. 

RYSE is a Malaysian research and social outreach project that empowers Malaysian youth through entrepreneurship and employability programmes.

We aim to promote upward mobility and to lower youth unemployment rates, as well as expose, upskill and support youth through various programmes. RYSE builds on ASB and MIT’s strengths in entrepreneurship and innovation, together with relying on the experiences of local partners and successful entrepreneurs in Malaysia to train young people with transferrable soft skills.