Yang Razali Kassim is a Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Prior to joining RSIS, he was a senior journalist with the Singapore Press Holdings, serving as Regional Editor at The Business Times and before that, Principal Assistant to the Editor as well as Senior Correspondent, The Straits Times, including a stint as Jakarta Correspondent. He was also a recipient of a Pan-Asia Award in Journalism by Citibank. Trained in Political Science at the then University of Singapore (now the National University of Singapore), he was a Wolfson Press Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge University and a Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute, Sydney. At RSIS, he is also a Senior Fellow with the Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies where he researches on non-traditional security issues including the politics and diplomacy of climate change, human security, particularly in ASEAN, as it relates to socio-political transitions, internal and cross-border conflicts as well as state-civil society relations in Southeast Asia. As a journalist, he covered major ASEAN meetings of political, security and economic ministers as well as the summits of APEC (the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation), ASEM (the Asia-Europe Meeting) and the WTO (World Trade Organization).
