Dr Vivian Louis Forbes is presently attached to the China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies (CIBOS) at Wuhan University as a Guest Professor, since January 2013. He is also attached to the South China Sea Institute at Xiamen University, China. He is presently an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Earth and Environment, University of Western Australia. He is author of a number of books, atlases and has been consulted on matters relating to maritime and terrestrial boundaries in the Indian Ocean Region and South East Asia and has appeared as a witness at Joint Standing Committee on Treaties Sessions for the Australian Federal Senate in relation to the delimitation of Australia’s maritime boundaries with Indonesia in 1997 and East Timor in 2002.