S. Nanthini is a Senior Analyst on the Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Programme at the Centre of Non-Traditional Security Studies (NTS Centre) , S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) , Nanyang Technological University (NTU) , Singapore. She holds a Masters in International Relations (International Security) from the University of Melbourne, and a Bachelor of Arts (Politics and Gender Studies) from La Trobe University. During her time in Melbourne, she volunteered with the humanitarian response agency RedR Australia where she furthered her interest in the security aspects of humanitarian situations.

Prior to joining RSIS, Nanthini was an intern at the Asia-Europe Foundation in Singapore and has written for the Young Diplomats as their Regional Content Writer for Southeast Asia. Her research interests include human security in Southeast Asia, looking at the HADR landscape through a gendered lens and the role of multilateralism in the security architecture of the Asia-Pacific.

• Gender and HADR
• R2P and Human Security in Southeast Asia
• Multilateralism and Security in the Asia-Pacific

Policy Reports

• Collective Response to Disasters in the Indo-Pacific: Opportunities and Challenges

  15 July, 2022

• Disasters in COVID-19: Implications for Nexus Governance

  01 July, 2021

• Pathways for ASEAN Contributions to Sustainable Peace and Security in Rakhine State, Myanmar

  06 May, 2020

Commentaries

• Countering Disinformation and Misinformation in Humanitarian Relief Work

  07 December, 2022

• Urban Resilience: A 21ˢᵗ Century Challenge

  19 August, 2022

• Planetary health: An alternative framework for disaster governance in ASEAN?

  17 August, 2022

• Humanitarian 'Do No Harm': Plugging Gaps in Data Governance

  18 June, 2021

• Global Health Security: COVID-19 and Its Impacts - In Limbo in ASEAN: Pandemic and Irregular Migration

  25 June, 2020

• Global Health Security - Impact of COVID-19: Can Irregular Migrants Cope?

  16 April, 2020

• ASEAN, Myanmar and the Rakhine Crisis: Two Years On

  29 November, 2019

Commemorative / Event Reports

• ASEAN Strategic Policy Dialogue On Disaster Management (SPDDM) 2022

  25 October, 2022

• ASEAN Strategic Policy Dialogue On Disaster Management (SPDDM) 2021

  15 November, 2021

NTS Insight

• Framing Climate Change: The Need for a Human Security Perspective

  10 September, 2021

• The COVID-19 Catalyst: Implications for Disaster Governance in ASEAN

  23 December, 2020

• COVID-19 and the Impacts on Women

  29 July, 2020

IDSS Paper

• IP23024 | Anticipatory Action: A Stop-gap Measure for Disaster Management

  16 March, 2023

• IP23019 | Public Health Emergencies: Moving Beyond Ad Hoc Military Responses

  02 March, 2023

• IP22019 | Two Years On: The Need for Gender-Sensitivity in Humanitarian Protection

  29 March, 2022

• IP21020 | European Militaries in the New Climate Reality

  02 December, 2021

Edited Books / Special Issues

• ASEAN Disaster Resilience Outlook – Preparing for a Future Beyond 2025 (with Alistair D. B. Cook, Lina Gong, and Christopher Chen), Eds. Jakarta: ASEAN Secretariat, 2021

Chapters in Edited Books

• “Singapore: Migrant Workers, a Vulnerable Community during COVID-19” in Noel M. Morada, Mely Caballero-Anthony (eds), Covid-19 and Atrocity Prevention in East Asia. London: Routledge, 2022,
• “Covid-19 Engagement in Southeast Asia” in Christian Echler and Jan Kliem (Eds), European Strategic Approaches to the Indo-Pacific. Singapore: Konrad-Adenaur-Siftung, 2022,

Op-Eds

• “ASEAN: A Multilateral Model of Disaster Management”, ORF, 15 December 2022
• “Urban Resilience: A 21st Century Challenge”, The Straits Times, 24 August 2022
• “An Alternative Framework for Disaster Governance in Asean” (with Lina Gong), The Straits Time, 22 August 2022
• “Defence Diplomacy as a Tool to Cope with the Climate Crisis”, East Asia Forum, 31 March 2022
• “Financing ASEAN Disaster Management and Resilience” (with Lina Gong), East Asia Forum, 4 November 2021
• “Re-evaluating the military’s role in disaster response”, The Interpreter, 27 January 2021
• “State Responses to the Refugee Situation during COVID-19: Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh” (with Christopher Chen), COVID-19 Impacts on Immigration Detention: Global Responses, 26 October 2020