She is Head of the Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies and Associate Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and a board member of the university’s Sustainable Earth Committee.

She is Secretary-General of the Consortium of Non-Traditional Security Studies in Asia, and recently served as Chair of the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters and Chair of the Board of the UN Institute for Disarmament Research.  She has also served as a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Conflict Prevention.

Among her 18 books, she is the author/ editor/ co-editor of;

• Human Security in ASEAN: 20 Years On (2014)
• Regional Security in Southeast Asia: Beyond the ASEAN Way (2005)
• An Introduction to Non-Traditional Security Studies: A Transnational Approach (2015)
• Mapping State and Non-State Actors’ Responses to Nuclear Energy in Southeast Asia (2016)
• Asia on the Move: Regional Migration and Civil Society (2015)
• Human Security and Climate Change in Southeast Asia: Managing Risk and Resilience (2013)
• Non-Traditional Security in Asia: Issues, Challenges, and Framework for Action (2013)
• Energy and Non-Traditional Security in Asia (2012), and Rethinking Energy Security in Asia (2012).