S. Nanthini is an Associate Research Fellow in the Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Programme within the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University. She holds a Masters in International Relations (International Security) from the University of Melbourne, and a Bachelor of Arts (Politics and Gender Studies) from La Trobe University

In 2023, Nanthini was recognised and appointed as a Pacific Forum Young Leader. She is also a member of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) Indo-Pacific Cooperation Network.

Her research interests include HADR, climate security and the gender and security in the Southeast Asian humanitarian landscape.

• Gender and HADR
• R2P and Human Security in Southeast Asia
• Multilateralism and Security in the Asia-Pacific

NTS Insight

• Military Humanitarianism in Southeast Asia: Through a Women, Peace and Security Lens

  20 August, 2024

• Framing Climate Change: The Need for a Human Security Perspective

  10 September, 2021

• The COVID-19 Catalyst: Implications for Disaster Governance in ASEAN

  23 December, 2020

• COVID-19 and the Impacts on Women

  29 July, 2020

IDSS Papers

• IP25044 | Navigating Climate Security Amid Global Challenges

  28 March, 2025

• IP25009 | 25 Years of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Sustaining Regional Momentum

  05 February, 2025

• IP24102 | Türkiye’s Humanitarian Diplomacy: Global Response and Reciprocity

  10 December, 2024

• IP24039 | The ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting: A Platform for Climate Security Cooperation

  27 March, 2024

• IP24032 | Humanitarian Diplomacy: A Tool to Rebuild Trust in the Humanitarian Sector

  22 March, 2024

• IP24013 | A Climate Security Priority: Australia’s Need for Balanced Domestic Disaster Infrastructure

  07 February, 2024

• IP23061 | ASEAN’s Move Towards Proactive Disaster Management

  23 August, 2023

• IP23024 | Anticipatory Action: A Stop-gap Measure for Disaster Management

  16 March, 2023

• IP23019 | Public Health Emergencies: Moving Beyond Ad Hoc Military Responses

  02 March, 2023

• IP22019 | Two Years On: The Need for Gender-Sensitivity in Humanitarian Protection

  29 March, 2022

• IP21020 | European Militaries in the New Climate Reality

  02 December, 2021

Policy Reports

• Mitigate, Adapt, Prepare: A Climate Security Agenda for the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting

  19 June, 2023

• Collective Response to Disasters in the Indo-Pacific: Opportunities and Challenges

  15 July, 2022

• Disasters in COVID-19: Implications for Nexus Governance

  01 July, 2021

• Pathways for ASEAN Contributions to Sustainable Peace and Security in Rakhine State, Myanmar

  06 May, 2020

RSIS Commentary Series

• Countering Disinformation and Misinformation in Humanitarian Relief Work

  07 December, 2022

• Urban Resilience: A 21ˢᵗ Century Challenge

  19 August, 2022

• Planetary health: An alternative framework for disaster governance in ASEAN?

  17 August, 2022

• Humanitarian 'Do No Harm': Plugging Gaps in Data Governance

  18 June, 2021

• In Limbo in ASEAN: Pandemic and Irregular Migration

  25 June, 2020

• Impact of COVID-19: Can Irregular Migrants Cope?

  16 April, 2020

• ASEAN, Myanmar and the Rakhine Crisis: Two Years On

  29 November, 2019

Commemorative / Event Reports

• ASEAN Strategic Policy Dialogue On Disaster Management (SPDDM) 2023

  28 November, 2023

• ASEAN Strategic Policy Dialogue On Disaster Management (SPDDM) 2022

  25 October, 2022

• ASEAN Strategic Policy Dialogue On Disaster Management (SPDDM) 2021

  15 November, 2021

• ASEAN Strategic Policy Dialogue On Disaster Management (SPDDM) 2019

  12 December, 2019

Edited Books / Special Issues

• ASEAN Disaster Resilience Outlook – Preparing for a Future Beyond 2025 (with Alistair D. B. Cook, Lina Gong, and Christopher Chen), Eds. Jakarta: ASEAN Secretariat, 2021

Chapters in Edited Books

• “Pandemics and Disasters: Approaches for Dealing with Converging Risks in Southeast Asia” (with Alistair D. B. Cook, Christopher Chen, and Lina Gong) in , Proceedings of the 1st ASEAN Cooperation Forum on Management of Non-Traditional Security (ACF-MNS 1). Hanoi, Vietnam: DHQG, 2023, pp. 700 - 721
• “Singapore: Migrant Workers, a Vulnerable Community during COVID-19” in Noel M. Morada, Mely Caballero-Anthony (eds), Covid-19 and Atrocity Prevention in East Asia. London: Routledge, 2022,
• “Covid-19 Engagement in Southeast Asia” in Christian Echler and Jan Kliem (Eds), European Strategic Approaches to the Indo-Pacific. Singapore: Konrad-Adenaur-Siftung, 2022,

Policy Reports

• Climate Change and Its Impact on Peace and Security in Southeast Asia (with Mely Caballero-Anthony, Julius Cesar Imperial Trajano, Alistair D. B. Cook, Jose Ma. Luis P. Montesclaros, Keith Paolo Catibog Landicho, and Danielle Lynn Goh), Climate Change and Its Impact on Peace and Security in Southeast Asia, Centre For Non-Traditional Security Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 23 January 2024
• Multilateralism and Disaster Management in the Global South: A Case Study for the G20 (with Sohini Bose), Multilateralism and Disaster Management in the Global South: A Case Study for the G20, Observer Research Foundation, 6 June 2023

Op-Eds

• “ASEAN: A Multilateral Model of Disaster Management”, ORF, 15 December 2022
• “Urban Resilience: A 21st Century Challenge”, The Straits Times, 24 August 2022
• “An Alternative Framework for Disaster Governance in Asean” (with Lina Gong), The Straits Time, 22 August 2022
• “Defence Diplomacy as a Tool to Cope with the Climate Crisis”, East Asia Forum, 31 March 2022
• “Financing ASEAN Disaster Management and Resilience” (with Lina Gong), East Asia Forum, 4 November 2021
• “Re-evaluating the military’s role in disaster response”, The Interpreter, 27 January 2021
• “State Responses to the Refugee Situation during COVID-19: Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh” (with Christopher Chen), COVID-19 Impacts on Immigration Detention: Global Responses, 26 October 2020