Dr Lynn Kuok is Lee Kuan Yew Chair in Southeast Asia Studies at Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. She is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a senior research fellow at the University of Cambridge.

She was most recently Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and co-Editor of the Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment.

She has held fellowships at 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.

Dr Kuok has lectured at the US Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute, the UK's Royal College of Defence Studies and the Australian War College, amongst others.

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