Nurrisha Ismail is a Senior Research Analyst at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR), a constituent unit of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She earned her Bachelor of Social Sciences in Political Science (Honours) from the National University of Singapore and is currently pursuing an MSc in Strategic Studies at RSIS, NTU. Her research primarily draws on open-source intelligence (OSINT) to examine political violence and terrorism in Southeast Asia, as well as nonviolent religious extremism.