Centre Staff

Dr Mely Caballero-Anthony

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

Mr Christopher Chen

Research Associate

Education: BA Hons; MIR (University of Melbourne)

Areas of Expertise:

• HADR Landscape in the Asia-Pacific; Institutional Memory
• Human Rights in Asia
• Forced Migration
• Politics & Conflicts in the Asia-Pacific

Entity: NTS Centre

Ms Chiam Shin Shing

Senior Administrative Officer

Secretary to Head of Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies

Entity: NTS Centre

Dr Alistair D. B. Cook

Research Fellow

Coordinator of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Programme

Education: MA Hons (University of St Andrews); MA (Purdue); PhD (Melbourne)

Areas of Expertise:

• Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response
• Peace and Conflict
• Asia Pacific Regionalism
• Foreign Policy and Internal Conflicts in the Asia Pacific
• Myanmar
• Cambodia
• Nuclear Safety, Security and Safeguards

Entity: NTS Centre

Dr Lina Gong

Research Fellow

Education: MA (Sichuan University); MSc (RSIS, NTU); PhD (RSIS, NTU)

Areas of Expertise:

• Non-Traditional Security Studies in East Asia
• China-ASEAN Relations
• China’s UN Diplomacy
• Peace and Conflict
• Human Security
• Responsibility to Protect

Entity: NTS Centre

Dr Noeleen Heyzer

Distinguished Visiting Fellow

Education: BA Hons; MSc (University of Singapore); PhD (University of Cambridge)

Entity: NTS Centre

Dr Arunajeet Kaur

Research Fellow

Education: BA (NUS); PGDip (NIE, NTU); MA (NUS); PhD (ANU)

Areas of Expertise:

• Migration
• Diaspora
• Multi culturalism
• Minority rights
• South East Asian communities
• ASEAN

Entity: NTS Centre

Ms Joey Liang

Webmaster / IT Executive

Entity: NTS Centre

Mr Jose Ma. Luis P. Montesclaros

Associate Research Fellow

Education: BSc (University of the Philippines Diliman); MPP (NUS)

Areas of Expertise:

• Dynamic modelling of public policy systems
• Complexity
• Governance institutions and strategy development
• Small and medium enterprises (SME) and tourism development

Entity: NTS Centre

Dr Tamara Nair

Research Fellow

Education: BA (NUS); MEnvMgmt (UNSW); PhD (UNSW)

Areas of Expertise:

• Decentralised Governance in Developing Nations

• Sustainable Development and Issues of Social Justice: Equitable Development in Local Communities

• Climate change, Natural Resource Management and the Role of Women

Entity: NTS Centre

Mr Martin Searle

Associate Research Fellow

Education: BA Hons (University College London); MA (The New School University)

Areas of Expertise:

• New Technologies in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response
• Mixed Migration in Southeast Asia
• Negotiating Access in Complex Humanitarian Settings
• Political Legitimacy in Unstable Contexts

Entity: NTS Centre

Ms Margareth Sembiring

Associate Research Fellow

Education: BEng, Mechanical Engineering (NUS); MSi (Han) (Indonesian Defense University); MA (King’s College London)

Areas of Expertise:

• Energy Security
• Geopolitics of Energy
• Environment, Development, and Transboundary Implications
• Peace, Human Security, and Development
• ASEAN Environmental Cooperation

Entity: NTS Centre

Dr Paul Teng

Professor

Adjunct Senior Fellow, Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, RSIS and Principal Officer at the National Institute of Education (NIE), both of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Education: B, Agricultural Sc Hons; PhD (University of Canterbury)

Areas of Expertise:

• Food security influencer, policies and technology
• Climate change and agricultural production
• Commercialisation and biosafety of crop biotechnology
• Bioentrepreneurship
• Urban agriculture and aquaculture

Entity: NTS Centre

Mr Julius Cesar Imperial Trajano

Research Fellow

Education: BA (University of the Philippines Manila); MSc (RSIS, NTU)

Areas of Expertise:

• Human Security, with Emphasis on Political and Economic Security
• Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response
• Ethnic Conflicts and Separatism in Southeast Asia
• Human Rights and Democratisation Issues in Southeast Asia
• Energy Security, Particularly Nuclear Energy Governance
• Traditional Security Issues in the Asia-Pacific, Particularly South China Sea Disputes

Entity: NTS Centre

Mr Angelo Paolo Luna Trias

Associate Research Fellow

Education: BA (De La Salle University); MEMDM (Charles Darwin University)

Entity: NTS Centre

Ms Charlotte Yu

Centre Manager

Education: BSc (SIM University)

Entity: NTS Centre