Asad-ul Iqbal Latif is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore. His areas of research include Singapore’s political and strategic relations with China, India, and United States.
He graduated with Honours in English from Presidency College, Calcutta, and received his Master of Letters degree in History at Clare Hall, Cambridge, where he was Raffles (Chevening) and S. Rajaratnam Scholar. He was a member of the president’s committee of the Cambridge Union Society, and a member of the editorial committee of the «Cambridge Review of International Affairs».
He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. A journalist before joining ISEAS, he worked at “The Statesman” in Calcutta, “Asianweek” in Hong Kong, “The Business Times” and “The Straits Times” in Singapore. He was a Jefferson Fellow at the Easet–West Center in Hawaii.
