On 29 June, as we welcomed Dr. Thanawit Bunsit from Thaksin University, along with 13 students, to our centre in Kuala Lumpur for the “Building Bridges: Education, Culture, and Cooperation between Malaysia and Thailand” sharing session, we had the honour of speaking to Dr. Bunsit about his thoughts on regional knowledge exchange in Southeast Asia and how he tries to expose his students to international environments.