Centre Staff
Ambassador Ong Keng Yong
Executive Deputy Chairman, RSIS
Director of Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies; Head of International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research
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
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Dr Kumar Ramakrishna
Professor of National Security Studies; and Provost’s Chair in National Security Studies
Dean of S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies; and Research Adviser to International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research
Education
BSSc Hons (NUS); M, Defence Studies (UNSW); PhD (Royal Holloway University of 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
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Ms Adilah Binti Anwar
Language Officer II
Education
BHmnSc Hons, Arabic Language and Literature (International Islamic University Malaysia) Areas of Expertise
- Languages
- Project management
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Mr Iftekharul Bashar
Associate Research Fellow
Education
BSSc Hons; MSSc (University of Dhaka) Areas of Expertise
- Political Violence and Terrorism in South Asia
- Counterterrorism
- Assessment of PVE/CVE programmes
- Rohingya Crisis and regional security
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Mr Abdul Basit
Senior Associate Fellow
Education
BA (Punjab University); MSc; MPhil (Quaid-I-Azam University) Areas of Expertise
- Countering and Preventing Violent Extremism in Af-Pak
- Non-state violent actors in Af-Pak
- Radicalisation and Islamist militancy
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Mr Jasminder Singh S/O Bilveer Singh
Associate Research Fellow
Education
BComm (University of Southern Queensland); MSc (RSIS, NTU) Dr Mahfuh Bin Haji Halimi
Research Fellow
Education
BA Hons (UKM, Malaysia); MSc; PhD (RSIS, NTU) Areas of Expertise
- Islamism and Security Issues in Southeast Asia
- Political Violence and Terrorism in the Middle East
- Jihadist Rehabilitation & Revision
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Mr Ahmad Saiful Rijal Bin Hassan
Associate Research Fellow
Education
BA (Al-Azhar University); MSc (RSIS, NTU) Areas of Expertise
- Terrorist Rehabilitation
- Community Engagement
- Moderation
- Political Islam
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Dr Muhammad Haniff Hassan
Research Fellow
Education
BA Hons (UKM); MSc (IDSS, NTU); PhD (RSIS, NTU) Areas of Expertise
- Islamic Jurisprudence and Contemporary Issues
- Political Islam
- Islamic and da`wah Movements
- Moderation and Extremism Study
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