Executive Deputy Chairman’s Office

Ambassador Ong Keng Yong

Executive Deputy Chairman, RSIS

Director, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies

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: RSIS

Mr Chris Cheang

Senior Fellow

Education: BSSc Hons (University of Singapore)

Areas of Expertise:

• The basis and directions of Russian foreign policy;
• Russia’s relations with China and the U.S., as seen from the Russian perspective;
• The role of Central Asia in Russia’s relations with China and the U.S.; and
• Russo-ASEAN relations

Entity: RSIS

Ms Kang Siew Kheng

Senior Fellow

Education: BSSc Hons (NUS); MBA (State University of New York, Buffalo)

Entity: RSIS

Dr Christopher H. Lim

Senior Fellow

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

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 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 Coordinator 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

Mr Adrian Tan

Deputy Head of Policy Studies

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

Entity: 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

Ms Maureen Lee

Personal Assistant to Executive Deputy Chairman

Entity: RSIS

Ms Pauline Liew

Senior Administrative Executive

Entity: RSIS

Mr Peter Lim

Visiting Senior Fellow

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

Entity: RSIS