Management

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

Dr Joseph Liow Chin Yong

Professor of Comparative and International Politics

Dean, RSIS

Education: BA Hons (Wisconsin-Madison); MSc (RSIS, NTU); PhD (LSE)

Areas of Expertise:

• Asia Pacific security issues
• Comparative politics of Southeast Asia
• Muslim social and political movements in Southeast Asia

Entity: RSIS

Dr Ralf Emmers

Professor of International Relations

Associate Dean, RSIS; Head of Centre for Multilateralism Studies

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: CMS / RSIS

Dr Ang Cheng Guan

Associate Professor

Head of Graduate 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: GPO

Dr Mely Caballero-Anthony

Associate 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 / IT

Dr Rohan Gunaratna

Professor of Security Studies

Head of International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research

Education: MA (University of Notre Dame); PhD (University of St Andrews)

Areas of Expertise:

• Islamic State and Al-Qaeda
• Counter terrorism intelligence
• Counter terrorism operations
• Countering the financing of terrorism
• Strategic prevention
• Online radicalization
• Rehabilitation and reintegration

Entity: ICPVTR

Dr Shashi Jayakumar

Senior Fellow

Head of Centre of Excellence for National Security

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

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 Sng Seow Lian

Head of Strategic Planning and Projects

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

Entity: RSIS

Dr Tan See Seng

Professor of International Relations

Deputy Director and Head of Research of the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies

Education: BA Hons (Manitoba); MA (Manitoba); PhD (Arizona State University)

Areas of Expertise:

• Critical social thought
• International relations theory
• Multilateralism and regionalism
• Conflict management
• Politics and security of Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific

Entity: IDSS