Ms Julia Lau is a Senior Fellow and Co-Coordinator of the Indonesia Studies Programme at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, and an Editor of fulcrum.sg, ISEAS’ commentary and analysis website. Julia’s current research interests include Indonesia’s foreign policy and domestic politics, Timor Leste studies, and Singapore’s war memory of the Japanese Occupation. She holds postgraduate degrees in Security Studies and in Government (Georgetown University), and LLB and LLM degrees from the National University of Singapore. Julia was lead editor for The Road to Nusantara: Process, Challenges and Opportunities (2023), a multi-authored volume on Indonesia’s new capital city. Prior to joining ISEAS, Julia taught international relations and law, comparative politics, and research methods at Georgetown, the Catholic University of America, and McDaniel College. In her early career, she was an analyst and manager at the Ministry of Defence, Singapore.
