Programme 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 Ong Wei Chong
Senior Associate Fellow
Deputy Coordinator of MSc (Strategic Studies) Programme
Education
BA (University of East Anglia, Norwich); MSc (IDSS, NTU); PhD (University of Exeter) Areas of Expertise
- National Security
- National Resilience
- Applied History
- Military History
- Strategic Studies
- Insurgency/Counterinsurgency
- Hybrid Warfare & Grey Zone Conflict
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Dr Graham Ong-Webb
Adjunct Fellow
Education
BSocSci Hons (NUS); MSc (LSE); AKC (KCL); PhD (KCL) Areas of Expertise
- Role and impact of Industry 4.0 technologies (especially artificial intelligence or AI, robotics, and 5G) on people and smart cities, national defence (particularly in unmanned warfare through AI-enabled autonomous platforms) and homeland security
- Postulations on Industry 5.0 technologies through weak signals in the global R&D sector
- Geopolitical, economic, and technological developments in the Asia Pacific
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Mr Syed Huzaifah Bin Othman Alkaff
Associate Research Fellow
Education
B, Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Heritage Hons (International Islamic University Malaysia) ; MSc Strategic Studies (RSIS,NTU) Areas of Expertise
- Middle Eastern and North African politics
- Political Islam
- Islamic Jurisprudence
- Communication
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Mr P. S. Suryanarayana
Adjunct Senior Fellow
Education
MA (University of Madras) Areas of Expertise
- Indian Foreign Policy
- India-China Relations (including BRI)
- India’s ‘Act East Policy’
- India and its Neighbourhood (Pakistan, Sri Lanka)
- India, Major Powers and Multilateralism
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Mr Raffaello Pantucci
Adjunct Senior Fellow
Education
BA (School University of Manchester); MA (King’s College London)
: ICPVTR

Dr Jaehan Park
Assistant Professor
Education
BA (Yonsei University); MA; PhD (Johns Hopkins SAIS) Areas of Expertise
- International Relations theory
- East Asian security
- U.S. foreign policy
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Dr Pey Peili
Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise
- Urban geographies of climate change
- Socioecological approaches: nexus of human-infrastructure and the more-than-human
- Environmental governance and ground-up movements
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