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    Dr Shashi Jayakumar

    Senior Fellow
    Head of Centre of Excellence for National Security; Executive Coordinator of Future Issues and Technology
    Education
    BA; MA; DPhil (Oxford University)
    : [email protected]
    : +65 6513 8060
    : CENS
    Retooling Resilience
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    Dr Shashi Jayakumar

    Senior Fellow
    Head of Centre of Excellence for National Security; Executive Coordinator of Future Issues and Technology
    Education
    BA; MA; DPhil (Oxford University)
    : [email protected]
    : +65 6513 8060
    : CENS

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    Biography

    Dr Jayakumar was educated at Oxford University where he studied History (BA 1997, D.Phil, 2001). He has published in various peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes on topics relating to medieval history (the focus of his doctorate). He was a member of the Singapore Administrative Service from 2002-2017. During this time, he was posted to various Ministries, including the Ministries of Defence, Manpower, Information and the Arts, and Community Development, Youth and Sports. He was from August 2011-July 2014 a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. His research interests include extremism, cyber, social resilience, and political history.

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    Areas of Expertise

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

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    Professional Activities

    • Oliver Smithies Visiting Lecturer, Balliol College, Oxford, April-May 2023
    • Singapore Representative to ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), 2019-2021, 2022-2024
    • Member, Advisory Board, National Museum of Singapore (2022-2024)
    • Member, International Advisory Board, Violence: An International Journal, 2018-present
    • Member, Content & Collections Committee, National Library Board (2021-3)
    • International Visitor, Stanford Humanities Center, May 2022
    • Member, Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism International Advisory Committee (2020-2021)
    • Member, National Library Board, 2015-2021
    • Chair, National Archives Advisory Committee (NAAC), 2015-2019
    • Member, Board of Governors, Republic Polytechnic, 2011-2017
    • Chair, School of Management and Communication Advisory Committee, Republic Polytechnic, 2011-2017
    • Participant, Future Leaders Invitations Programme, (Le Programme d’invitation des personnalités d’avenir [PIPA]), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France, June-July 2015
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    RSIS Publications

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    External Publications

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    Talks

    • Speaker, “Asian Studies Centre, St Antony’s College Oxford/Oliver Smithies Lecture, Balliol College Oxford”, 30 May 2023.
    • Invited Speaker, “Resisting Radicalisation” Workshop, Paris, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), 17 May 2023.
    • Speaker, “Disinformation and Hybrid Threats – The Singapore Perspective” for the Balliol College Oliver Smithies Visiting Lecturer Seminar Series at the University of Oxford, 16 May 2023.
    • Speaker, “Bridging the Global North-South and other legal divides” at the CIL-Chatham House Regional Workshop and Dialogue on International Law in Cyberspace: Asian Perspectives and Current Trends – Session 7 Coordination, 19 April 2023.
    • Speaker, Singapore Kaleidoscope Symposium 2023 at the National Institute of Education (NIE), 7 February 2023.
    • Speaker, Building Partnerships for the Rule of Law at the Asia Pacific Justice Forum by the World Justice Project, 9 December 2022.
    • Speaker, “Singapore’s Approach to “Deradicalisation”” at the National Action Plans: A Whole Society Approach or Solely Government Effort webinar by SEAN-CSO and IMAN Research, 26 October 2022.
    • Speaker, “Singapore’s Approach to Countering Disinformation” at the Strengthening Resilience and Countering Hybrid Interference Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 11 October 2022.
    • Speaker, “Transnational Volunteers Against ISIS” for the Workshop on Extremism: Old Paradigms; New Frontiers by the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS), 5 October 2022.
    • Speaker, “Polarisation, [In] tolerance, Cohesion, and Social Media” at the International Conference on Cohesive Societies (ICCS), 7 September 2022.
    • Speaker, “Disinformation and Social Media” at the Putrajaya Forum 2022 by the Malaysian Institute of Defense and Security (MIDAS), 29 March 2022.
    • Speaker, MINDEF/SAF’s Strategic Communications Learning Day 2022, 4 April 2022.
    • Speaker, “Asymmetric Warfare: Preferred Policy for State Actors Today?”  for the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS) Flagship International Event – Contours of Future Wars and Counter Measures, 3 February 2022.
    • Speaker, Olive TREE Forum 2021 on ‘Disinformation’ for Humanity Matters, 26 November 2021.
    • Panelist, “Security, Competition & Cooperation in Asia and the Pacific” for the Global Security Forum 2021 by The Soufan Group, 8 October 2021.
    • Speaker, Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) Southeast Asia Regional Meeting’s Opening Panel on Cyber Capacity Building Landscape in Southeast Asia for Singapore International Cyber Week (SICW), 7 October 2021.
    • Speaker, Stratcom Direction- International Perspective in the Information Independence Conference by the War Studies University, Warsaw, Poland, 17 September 2021.
    • Speaker, Moot Parliament Programme (MPP) Symposium 2021 by the Gifted Education Branch, Ministry of Education Singapore, 1 September 2021.
    • Speaker, ASEAN Regional Forum Workshop on Preventing Terrorist Use of the Internet for Christchurch Call, International Security & Disarmament Division by New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade, New Zealand, 7 July 2021.
    • Panellist, APAC in Focus: Regional Responses to Terrorist and Violent Extremist Activity Online, by Tech Against Terrorism & GIFCT, United Kingdom, 24 June 2021
    • Speaker, Book Launch, Handbook of Terrorism Prevention and Preparedness by Alex P. Schmid (Ed.), Part IV, Cyber Attacks by Terrorists and Other Malevolent Actors: Prevention and Preparedness, With Three Case Studies on Estonia, Singapore and the United States, International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT), The Hague, 18 May 2021.
    • Guest Speaker, Violent extremism and (de) radicalization in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore) for the The Conflict Analysis and Prevention Center (CAPC), Moscow,  Russian Federation,  26 February 2021.
    • Guest Speaker, Religious Radicalism: Christian and Muslim Understanding and Responses on “Exploring Beliefs, Narratives, and Ideologies of Islamic Radicalism” by the Pontifical Council on Interreligious Dialogue, 26 January 2021.
    • Guest Speaker, US-Singapore Cyber & Tech Security Virtual Series on “Cybersecurity and Big Data” by the Pacific Forum, 21 January 2021.
    • Guest Speaker, Human Rights Seminar on “Human Rights in Cyberspace: Emerging Issues” by the European Union Delegation to Singapore, 20 January 2021.
    • Guest Speaker, International Maritime Seminar 2020 on “Disinformation and Cyber” by the Indonesian Navy Headquarters, Naval Command and Staff College, 5 November 2020.
    • Guest Speaker, UNSW ASEAN Conference 2020 on “Cyberthreats: Non-Traditional Security Issues in ASEAN” by the University of New South Wales, 24 October 2020.
    • Guest Speaker, “Radicalization into Violent Extremism: An Understanding of the phenomenon in a Globalized Context” by the National Defence College (NDC), Bangladesh, 14 September 2020.
    • Guest Speaker, GovInsider Live Festival of Innovation on “Security by Design” by the GovInsider, 7 September 2020.
    • Expert Speaker, “Global Cyber Policy Dialogues: Southeast Asia” by the East West Institute and the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore, 6 August 2020.
    • Guest Speaker, “Disinformation: Policy Options and Operational Methods Used to Counter Disinformation” by the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS), 1 July 2020.
    • Guest Speaker, EWI Virtual Roundtable on “Trust but Verify – Getting to Secure Global ICT Supply Chains” by the East West Institute (EWI), 25 June 2020.
    • Guest Speaker, “Misinformation and COVID” in Episode 4: Tom Pressley, Dr Shashi Jayakumar and Dr Carol Soon by Infotagion Podcast, 30 April 2020.
    • Guest Speaker, “Geopolitical Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic” by the Instituto de Relações Internacionais da Universidade de Brasília (Institute of International Relations of the University of Brasília), 16 April 2020.
    • Panellist, IPS-Facebook Live Forum: Singapore’s Response to the Outbreak of Covid-2019 by IPS and Facebook, 25 February 2020.
    • Keynote Speaker, EU Annual Human Rights Day Seminar: Towards a More Cohesive Society in the Context of Counter-Terrorism and Countering of Violent Extremism for the European Union Delegation to Singapore, 12 December 2019.
    • Guest Speaker, “Deliberate Online Falsehoods” for the 4th ASEAN Cybercrime Prosecutor’s Roundtable Meeting (ACPRM) by the Attorney-General’s Chambers (Singapore), 2 October 2019.
    • Guest Speaker, 8th International Risk Assessment & Horizon Scanning Symposium (IRAHSS 2019) on “Security Reimagined”, 23 July 2019.
    • Guest Speaker, “Tackling Cybersecurity Threats in Southeast Asia: Lessons from Singapore” for The Asia Foundation, United States of America, 15 July 2019.
    • Guest Speaker, INTERPOL World 2019 on “Future Capabilities and Cultures – How do police build future capabilities and cultures within their organisations?” by INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation, 3 July 2019.
    • Guest Speaker, 33rd Asia-Pacific Roundtable (APR) on “State Sponsored Influence Operations in The Digital Age” by the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia, 24-26 June 2019.
    • Guest Speaker, 7th Senior Commanders Programme on “ISIS and Social Media: Singapore Perspectives” by the Goh Keng Swee Command and Staff College, 14 May 2019.
    • Speaker, “Tackling Disinformation and Online Falsehoods in Singapore” for the visit to RSIS by the Science and Technology Committee (STC) of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, 7 May 2019.
    • Guest Speaker, Harvard College in Asia Programme on “Future Security Challenges: What does Education have to do with it?” by the Singapore Management University, 19 March 2019.
    • Guest Speaker, Conference on AI, Politics and Security in the Asia-Pacific on “Singapore and AI” by the Coral Bell School, ANU, Canberra, 13 March 2019.
    • Guest Speaker, Roundtable China’s Evolving Power in the Indo-Pacific: The Impact of the Digital Silk Road on “Singapore, ASEAN and Cyber” by the International Institute of Strategic Studies, 27 February 2019.
    • Guest Speaker, Workshop on Enhancing Member State capacities to exploit social media in relation to the Foreign Terrorist Fighters phenomenon on “Foreign Terrorist Fighters: A Singapore Perspective” by UNOCT-INTERPOL, 25 February 2019.
    • Guest Speaker, EU-Singapore Think Tank Dialogue on “Cyber and Disinformation” by the European Institute of Security Studies & RSIS, 30 January 2019.
    • Guest Speaker, “Deradicalisation” by the IPEV (International Panel on Exiting Violence) and Dabran Foundation Conference (Sulimaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan), 18 January 2019.
    • Guest Speaker, SRP Executive Programme on “A Clash of Civilisations? A Conflict Amongst Religions?” by RSIS, 13 November 2018.
    • Guest Speaker, Forum on “Fake News and Disinformation: Singapore Perspectives” for the Goh Keng Swee Command and Staff College, 8 October 2018.
    • Guest Speaker, “Cyber and Disinformation” for the RSIS/ASPI Dialogue (Singapore), 25 September 2018.
    • Guest Speaker, Risk and Artificial Intelligence, “Risk” and “AI” by the PMO-Strategy Group/Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), 5 September 2018.
    • Guest Speaker, Digitalisation in Asia Programme, “Cybersecurity and Disinformation” by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung at the Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore, 10 July 2018.
    • Guest Speaker, “Singapore, Fake News and Disinformation” at the Sri Lanka Institute of National Security Studies (INSSSL), 5 July 2018.
    • Guest Speaker, “Deradicalisation” at the IPEV (International Panel on Exiting Violence) Conference, Beirut, Lebanon, 21 June 2018.
    • Guest Speaker, in-house lecture, “Disinformation and Fake News” at the Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore, 30 May 2018.
    • Guest Speaker, “Disinformation across East and West” at the Kiev Security Forum (Kiev), 11 April 2018.
    • Guest Speaker, Cybersecurity in ASEAN on “Cybersecurity in ASEAN” for the Asia Foundation Practitioners’ workshop, 19 April 2018.
    • Guest Speaker, Singapore-France Middle East Dialogue (Paris) on “Terrorism and Radicalisation: Perspectives from Asia” for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Singapore)/Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France), 21 February 2018.
    • Guest Speaker, ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand (AANZ) Dialogue on “The Convergence of Technology, Foreign Policy, and Security” for the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia, 21 November 2017.
    • Guest Speaker, Panel on the Specific Transnational Terrorist Threats for the Conference on the Prevention of Violent Extremism in Southeast Asia by the Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy (PCID), 22 September 2017.
    • Guest Speaker, Future of Asia Conference  on “Lee Kuan Yew” for the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, 15 September 2017 [USA].
    • Guest Speaker, Future of Asia Conference  on “Securing Asia” for the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, 14 September 2017 [USA].
    • Guest Speaker, ASEAN at 50: The Way Forward on “Challenges to Peace, Security and Stability in ASEAN” by the Carlos P. Romulo Foundation, the Center for Strategic
      International Studies in Indonesia, and the Stratbase-ADR Institute, 3 August 2017 [Manila].
    • Guest Speaker, International Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning Symposium 2017 on “Counter-Terrorism Strategies and Technology” for the National Security Coordination Secretariat, Prime Minister’s Office, 19 July 2017.
    • Guest Speaker, Smart Nation, Secure Systems: Building Cybersecurity in Singapore on  “Challenges for a Smart Nation: Security, Artificial Intelligence Risks”  for the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA), 4 May 2017.
    • Guest Speaker, Disrupted Balance-Society at Risk Conference on “Terrorism and Cyber: Singapore’s Security Futures” for the Nanyang Technology University Singapore and Para Limes Global Dialogue, 6 December 2016.

    Last updated on 01/06/2023