Dr. Graham Ong-Webb is an Adjunct Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), where he teaches a postgraduate module on political risk analysis under the International Political Economy Programme. He has published several edited volumes and written extensively in journals including Southeast Asian Affairs, The Journal of Strategic Studies, The Journal of International Studies, Jane’s Intelligence Review, and World Defence Systems.
He also serves as Senior Advisor, Geopolitical and Regulatory Risk, Asia Pacific at Kroll, having previously been the firm’s Senior Vice President and Head of Operations for its Investigations, Diligence and Compliance practice in Southeast Asia, where he led teams across the Singapore, Jakarta, and Hanoi offices.
Earlier, at ST Engineering, he was Vice President and Head of the Future Technology Centre, spanning the Group Technology Office and the Defence and Public Security cluster, before becoming Deputy Chief Technology Officer for ST Engineering Land Systems.
Before ST Engineering, Dr. Ong-Webb was a Research Fellow in the Office of the Executive Deputy Chairman at RSIS, focusing on the Future Issues and Technology portfolio. He also held roles with the Military Studies Programme, lecturing at the Goh Keng Swee Command & Staff College under the SAFTI-Military Institute, and with the International Political Economy Programme.
His prior career includes Chief Operating Officer at the Future-Moves Group, Senior Consultant with Control Risks, and Research Analyst at Jane’s.
A Commonwealth Scholar, Dr. Ong-Webb holds a multidisciplinary PhD in Strategic and Intelligence Studies from King’s College London, where he also attained his Associate of King’s College (AKC) in theology and was awarded the Leathes Prize as top student. He read for an MSc in International Relations at the London School of Economics, supported by a Sir Tan Cheng Lock Scholarship from the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, and earned a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) in Political Science from the National University of Singapore, where he held the NUS-Shaw Foundation Scholarship and was part of the University Scholars Programme.
