Management

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

Dr Ralf Emmers

Dean of S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and President’s Chair in International Relations

Education: BA (VUB-Vesalius College); MSc; PhD (LSE)

Areas of Expertise:

• Security Studies and International Relations Theory
• Maritime Security
• International Institutions in the Asia Pacific
• Security and International Politics of Southeast Asia

Entity: RSIS

Dr Ang Cheng Guan

Associate Professor

Associate Dean of S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies; Deputy Director of Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies

Education: BA Hons (NUS); MA (University of London); PhD (University of London)

Areas of Expertise:

• Cold War International History of Southeast Asia and The Indochina Wars

Entity: IDSS / RSIS

Dr Mely Caballero-Anthony

Professor

Head of Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies

Education: BA Hons; MA (UP); PhD (HKU)

Areas of Expertise:

• Regionalism and Regional Security in the Asia-Pacific
• Non-Traditional Security
• Human Security, Comparative Politics and International Relations in Southeast Asia
• Conflict Prevention and Management, Human Rights, Democracy
• Human Security
• Migration and Protection of Civilian
• Responsibility to Protect

Entity: NTS Centre

Ms Alicia Cheung

Head of Administration

Education: BCom (NU); MBA (NTU)

Entity: Administration / Finance / HR

Mrs Ong-Chew Peck Wan

Head of Corporate Affairs

Education: BA Hons (NUS); MSJ (Northwestern University)

Entity: RSIS

Dr Shashi Jayakumar

Senior Fellow

Head of Centre of Excellence for National Security and Executive Coordinator of Future Issues and Technology

Education: BA; MA; DPhil (Oxford)

Areas of Expertise:

• Radicalisation and Countering Violent Extremism
• Singapore’s National Security
• Singapore History post-1965

Entity: CENS

Mr Eddie Lim

Senior Fellow

Head of Military Studies Programme, IDSS

Education: BA (NUS); PGDE (NIE, NTU); MSc (NTU)

Areas of Expertise:

• ASEAN Affairs
• Civil-Military Relations
• Strategic Studies
• Military History

Entity: IDSS

Ambassador Mohammad Alami Musa

Head of Studies in Inter-Religious Relations in Plural Societies Programme

Education: BEng (University of Singapore); MSc (NUS)

Areas of Expertise:

• Interreligious Relations, Dialogue & the Religious Other
• Muslim Identity Formation in Plural Societies
• Muslims in Secular States

Entity: SRP

Mr Benny Oon

Head of Outreach

Executive Coordinator of Risk & Innovation Management

Education: BSSc Hons (NUS); MComms (USC)

Entity: IT / RSIS

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 (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

Dr Bhubhindar Singh

Associate Professor

Head of Graduate Studies; Coordinator of Regional Security Architecture Programme, IDSS

Education: BA Hons (NUS); BA (NUS); MSc (RSIS, NTU); PhD (University of Sheffield)

Areas of Expertise:

• Japanese Foreign Security Policy
• International Relations of Northeast Asia

Entity: GPO / IDSS

Mr Sng Seow Lian

Head of Strategic Planning and Projects

Education: BA Hons (NUS); M, Defence Studies (UNSW)

Entity: RSIS

Mr Adrian Tan

Head of Policy Coordination & Specialist Research

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

Entity: RSIS