Lynn Kuok is a nonresident fellow at Brookings Institution, and a senior research fellow at the University of Cambridge. From February to August 2017, she was a senior visiting research fellow at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on International Security. She has held fellowships at Harvard Law School, the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Dr Kuok works on the politics, law and security of the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on the South China Sea dispute, and nationalism and race and religious relations in Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Myanmar). Her analysis has featured in influential publications and broadsheets, including Foreign Affairs and The Wall Street Journal. She has also been interviewed by and quoted in various broadcast and print media, including the BBC, Al Jazeera, the New York Times and the Associated Press.

She holds a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge, a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a law degree from the National University of Singapore. She has served as editor-in-chief of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs and the Singapore Law Review.

Fun-fact: Lynn enjoys British detective dramas, but none more than ‘Grantchester’, a village on the outskirts of Cambridge and home of Rupert Brooke, where she has fond memories of taking tea as a student. She once campaigned against the humble full stop (period). But. Uses. Them. Liberally. Now.