Executive Deputy Chairman’s Office

Ambassador Ong Keng Yong

Executive Deputy Chairman, RSIS

Director of 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: IDSS / 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

Acting Head 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

Dr Stephanie Neubronner

Research Fellow

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

Areas of Expertise:

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

Entity: NSSP

Mr Joshua Ng

Associate Research Fellow

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 Kumar Ramakrishna

Associate Professor

Associate Dean; Head of International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research; Research Adviser to National Security Studies Programme

Education: BSSc Hons (NUS); M, Defence Studies (UNSW); PhD (Royal Holloway University of 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: ICPVTR / NSSP / RSIS

Mr Adrian Tan

Head of Policy Coordination & Specialist Research

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

Entity: RSIS

Ms Ariel Tan

Deputy Head of Policy Studies

Coordinator of Malaysia Programme

Education: BA Hons (NUS); MPA (Harvard 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 Yogaananthan S/O Theva

Associate Research Fellow

Education: BA Hons; MA (NUS)

Areas of Expertise:

• International Relations of Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific region
• Multilateral Security and International Politics of Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific region
• Small State Security
• Cultural History

Entity: RSIS

Mr Jansen Wee

Research Fellow

Education: BA Hons (NUS)

Areas of Expertise:

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

Entity: NSSP