Annabel Teh Gallop FBA (born 5 August 1961) is a specialist in Southeast Asia, and is Head of the Southeast Asia Section at the British Library.
[1] Gallop was a senior producer for the Indonesian and Malay section of the BBC World Service from 1985–86.
Her research focuses on the British Library's Malay collections: writing traditions, book cultures and the art of the Qur’an in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean world; Malay and Indonesian manuscripts, letters, documents and seals, and comparative Islamic diplomatics.
She co-directed the British Academy-funded research project "Islam, Trade and Politics across the Indian Ocean" (2009-2012), which investigated Ottoman links with Southeast Asia.
[2] She received the Darjah Setia DiRaja Kedah in 2014 and was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2019.