Dr Lynn Kuok

Dr Lynn Kuok is Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore, and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Rising Powers, University of Cambridge. She will be rejoining Brookings Institution as a non-resident fellow in Washington, DC, in September 2017. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on International Security. She was formerly a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, and a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Harvard Kennedy School.

Lynn works on the politics, law and security of the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on the South China Sea dispute. She also studies nationalism and race and religious relations in Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Myanmar). As part of her work on the WEF Council, she examines the implications of the 4th Industrial Revolution for the future of international security.

Lynn is an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore and was a senior producer at a television news station in Asia. She also served as editor-in-chief of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs and the Singapore Law Review, both peer-reviewed journals. She has been invited to speak at top universities and international conferences. She has also written for leading publications and broadsheets, and been interviewed by and quoted in various broadcast and print media.

For more information, please visit her website at lynnkuok.com.