Centre Staff
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) Areas of Expertise
- Radicalisation and Countering Violent Extremism
- Singapore’s National Security
- Singapore History post-1965
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Mr Benjamin Ang
Senior Fellow
Deputy Head of Centre of Excellence for National Security; Coordinator of Cyber and Homeland Defence Programme
Education
LLB (NUS); MBA/MS-MIS (Boston University) Areas of Expertise
- Computer Misuse and Cyber Security Act and other legal issues related to cybersecurity
- Personal Data Protection Act and other legal issues related to data privacy
- Technology Law
- Media, New Media and Intellectual Property Law
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Ms Nur Diyanah Binte Anwar
Adjunct Research Associate
Education
BSSc Hons (NUS); MSc (RSIS, NTU) Areas of Expertise
- Social Policies
- State and Societal Relations
- Strategic Communication
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Ms Antara Chakraborthy
Senior Analyst
Education
BA (MOP Vaishnav College for Women); PG Dip. (Asian College of Journalism); MSc (RSIS, NTU) Areas of Expertise
- Ethnic and Diasporic studies
- Citizenship, multiculturalism and its impact on south Asian society
- Indian Foreign Policy
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Mr Joseph Franco
Research Fellow
Education
BA (University of the Philippines); MSc (RSIS, NTU) Areas of Expertise
- Radicalisation
- Counter-terrorism
- Counter-insurgency
- Asia Pacific Security
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Dr Gulizar Haciyakupoglu
Research Fellow
Education
BS (SUNY, Binghamton); BA (Boğaziçi University), MA (University of Sheffield, UK); PhD (NUS) Areas of Expertise
- Disinformation Campaigns and Influence Operations
- Trust in Cyberspace
- Internet, Communication and Authority
- Gender Equality Advocacy in Cyberspace
- Online Activism
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Mr Daniel Prakash James
Centre Manager, CENS
Education
BB Int. Mgmt. (CDU, Australia); CIDTT (Cambridge, UK) Dr Majeed Khader
Adjunct Senior Fellow
Education
BSocSc Hons (NUS); MSc (Leicester); PhD (Aberdeen) Areas of Expertise
- The Psychology of Crisis
- Crisis and Critical Incident Leadership Psychology
- Crisis Management Psychology
- Personality Psychology
- Criminal and Forensic Psychology
- Terrorism Psychology
- The Psychology of Resilience
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Ms Dymples Leong
Associate Research Fellow
Education
BBus (University of Newcastle) Areas of Expertise
- Behavioural insights and policy
- Influence of social media and technology
- Strategic Communications
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Mr Adam Palmer
Adjunct Senior Fellow
Education
BA (Valparaiso University); JD (Duquesne University School of Law); MBA (University of Hawaii)
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