Lynn Kuok

Lee Kuan Yew Chair in Southeast Asia Studies at the Brookings Institution

Lynn Kuok is the Lee Kuan Yew Chair in Southeast Asia Studies at the Brookings Institution. She is also a senior research fellow at the University of Cambridge.

Kuok was most recently Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and co-editor-in-chief of the Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment. She was a professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, offering a course on the International Law of the Sea and East Asian politics.

She has held fellowships at the Brookings Institution, Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Centre for International Law. She also served as editor-in-chief of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs and the Singapore Law Review.

Kuok has lectured at the U.K.’s Royal College of Defence Studies, the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute, and the Australian War College, amongst others. She has given expert oral and written testimony to the U.K. House of Lords International Relations and Defense Committee and the U.K. House of Commons Defence Committee.

She speaks regularly at international conferences and has presented her work at leading universities, including Harvard University, Stanford University, and the University of Cambridge. Her analysis has featured in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Survival, The Wall Street Journal, and Nikkei Asia amongst others. She has been interviewed by and quoted in various broadcast and print media, including the BBC, CNBC, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, Reuters, and The New York Times.

She sits on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Geopolitics and was a council member on its Global Future Council on the Future of International Security.

Kuok earned her doctorate from the University of Cambridge.