Executive Deputy Chairman’s Office

Ambassador Ong Keng Yong

Executive Deputy Chairman, RSIS

Director, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies; Head of International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research

Education: LLB Hons (University of Singapore); MA (Georgetown University)

Areas of Expertise:

• ASEAN’s Strategic Role in Regional Architecture
• ASEAN’s Relations with External Parties
• ASEAN’s Community-building Initiatives
• Relations between Singapore and Malaysia and India

Entity: ICPVTR / IDSS / RSIS

Mr Rajeev Ranjan Chaturvedy

Visiting Fellow

Education: MSs (Banaras Hindu University); M.Phil (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Areas of Expertise:

• Indian Foreign Policy
• Chinese Strategic Access to Southern Asia
• South Asian Regional Security and Development
• Maritime Security Issues in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea
• Politics in India

Entity: RSIS

Mr Chris Cheang

Senior Fellow

Education: BSSc Hons (University of Singapore)

Areas of Expertise:

• Basis and Directions of Russian Foreign Policy;
• Russia’s Relations with China and the US, as Seen from the Russian Perspective;
• Role of Central Asia in Russia’s Relations with China and the US; and
• Russo-ASEAN Relations

Entity: RSIS

Dr Damien D. Cheong

Research Fellow

Coordinator of National Security Studies Programme

Education: BCom; BA Hons (Murdoch University); PhD (Monash University)

Areas of Expertise:

• Homeland Defence
• Strategic Communication
• Security Studies
• Political Violence and Middle East Politics

Entity: NSSP

Mr Nandhakumar Gunasekaran

Senior Analyst

Education: BSSc Hons (NUS); MSc (RSIS, NTU)

Areas of Expertise:

• Unconventional Threats
• Robotics and Automation

Entity: STSP

Dr Christopher H. Lim

Senior Fellow

Education: BS magna cum laude (NMU); MS (UIC); PhD (ANU)

Entity: RSIS

Mr Peter Lim

Visiting Senior Fellow

Education: Cambridge Overseas School Certificate (Grade 1), (ACS Singapore)

Entity: RSIS

Mr Vincent Mack Zhi Wei

Associate Research Fellow

Education: BSc (NUS); MSc (RSIS,NTU)

Areas of Expertise:

• Social Movements, Protests, and Political Mobilisation
• Labour Unions and Vulnerable Populations
• Political Sociology, International Political Economy and Discourse Analysis
• Dynamic modelling of public policy systems
• Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods

Entity: RSIS

Dr Stephanie Neubronner

Research Fellow

Education: BA Hons; PhD (The University of Western Australia)

Areas of Expertise:

• Socio-Cultural Identity
• Governance and Social Relations
• Influence of New Media

Entity: NSSP

Mr Joshua Ng

Senior Analyst

Education: BA Hons (NUS)

Areas of Expertise:

• Singapore’s National Security and its History, and Outreach and Education efforts
• Fake News
• Radicalization, Extremism and Social Cohesion
• The Internet Landscape of Singapore

Entity: NSSP

Dr Graham Ong-Webb

Research Fellow

Education: BSSc Hons (NUS); MSc (LSE); AKC; PhD (KCL)

Areas of Expertise:

• Geopolitics in the Asia Pacific (with a current focus on the crisis in the Korean Peninsula, and tensions in the South China Sea)
• Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) proliferation, threats and responses (with a focus on the nuclear domain)
• Terrorism and counter-terrorism developments in Southeast Asia (with a current focus on Singapore’s counter-terrorism and national resilience capabilities)
• The social and security impacts of emerging technologies (with a current focus on Artificial Intelligence)

Entity: RSIS

Dr Kumar Ramakrishna

Associate Professor

Head of Policy Studies and Head of National Security Studies Programme

Education: BSSc Hons (NUS); M, Defence Studies (UNSW); PhD (London)

Areas of Expertise:

• History of Strategic Thought
• Propaganda Theory
• Counter-insurgency Theory
• History of the Malayan Emergency (1948-60)
• Terrorist Motivations and Ideology
• Counter-terrorism Strategy

Entity: NSSP / RSIS

Ms Vishalini Suresh

Senior Analyst

Education: BA Hons (Melbourne); MA (ANU)

Areas of Expertise:

• Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief
• Humanitarian Intervention and R2P
• ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community

Entity: RSIS

Mr Adrian Tan

Deputy Head of Policy Studies

Coordinator of Malaysia Programme, IDSS

Education: BA Hons (NUS); MA (Stanford University)

Entity: IDSS / RSIS

Ms Tan Ming Hui

Associate Research Fellow

Education: BA Hons (NUS); MSc (RSIS,NTU)

Areas of Expertise:

• Japan’s Foreign Policy
• International Relations of East Asia
• Politics of War, Memory, and History

Entity: RSIS

Dr Tan Teck Boon

Research Fellow

Coordinator of Science and Technology Studies Programme

Education: BSc (State University of New York); MSocSc (NUS); PhD (LKYSPP, NUS)

Areas of Expertise:

• Smart Cities
• Emerging Science and Technology
• Urban Innovation and Adaptive Capacity

Entity: STSP

Mr Jansen Wee

Research Fellow

Education: BA Hons (NUS)

Areas of Expertise:

• National Security
• Military History
• Civil Wars
• Unconventional Warfare
• Terrorism

Entity: NSSP