Taif Alkhudary is a PhD student at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. She has held various research roles at the LSE Middle East Centre for the past three years, with a focus on topics including, women’s rights, social movements, and the post-2003 state in Iraq. Previously, she worked for several human rights NGOs conducting strategic litigation on cases of human rights violations in the Middle East and North Africa region.
Moez Hayat is a first-year PhD student in Politics and International Studies. His doctoral research focuses on a classical realist model for diplomacy in Southeast Asia. He has a broader interest in smaller states and regional order in international affairs, Asian and Middle Eastern security, and the resilience of monarchies in the 21st century. A former U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Brunei Darussalam, he is a non-resident Visiting Researcher in the Academy of Brunei Studies at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam. He also holds a Master of Arts in Asian Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He writes prolifically on regional and world affairs with articles in The East Asia Forum, The Strategist, The Diplomat, and The National Interest.
Say Jye is a PhD student at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Cambridge. His PhD dissertation focuses on post-war socialist thought in the Third World, particularly in Indonesia and Singapore. The project aims to establish that post-colonial socialism is best understood as a vision of modernity, though underneath that umbrella vision, two strands of post-colonial socialism can be identified. These strands could be characterised as technocratic and populist. Say Jye has other interests in the intellectual history of non-alignment, the history of political thought in Singapore, and energy geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific. Before moving to Cambridge, Say Jye worked as a research analyst at the Asia Competitiveness Institute, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Say Jye competed his B.Soc.Sc (Honours) at the National University of Singapore, graduating with Highest Distinction, and holds an M.Sc in Asian Studies (Valedictorian) from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University.