Reuben Wong

Reuben Wong is Academic Director in the National University of Singapore’s Global Relations Office. The founding Director of Studies (2012-19) at the College of Alice and Peter Tan (CAPT), he is now a Resident Fellow in the College. Reuben held the first Jean Monnet Chair in Singapore (2013-16) and is affiliated to the Political Science Department. A former diplomat, he was First Secretary in the Singapore Embassy in Paris (1995 -1998). He earned an M.Phil in European Politics at Oxford, and a PhD in International Relations at the LSE. Reuben’s publications have focused on EU and French foreign policy. They include The Europeanization of French Foreign Policy: France and the EU in East Asia​ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), National and European Foreign Policies​ (co-edited with Christopher Hill, Routledge, 2011), and journal articles in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Politique Européenne, Asia Europe Journal, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, and EU External Affairs Review. He has held visiting positions at Cambridge University (2005), the LSE (European Institute, 2008), the Stimson Center (Wash, DC, 2009), the East Asian Institute (Singapore, 2011), and Humboldt University (Berlin, 2014). His current research interests include identity in foreign policy, the EU’s relations with ASEAN & China, and the politics of disability. A Fulbright scholar (2009), he is an Associate Fellow at the EU Centre Singapore, Senior Research Affiliate (EU-China programme) at the College of Europe in Bruges, and was on the Council of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA). He does consulting and media interviews on EU foreign policy, international relations, and Singapore/SE Asian politics. Reuben raises four children to help arrest Singapore's declining total fertility rate.

Research Interests

European foreign policy, Regionalism and Integration Theory, Human Rights, Security, and Asia-Europe Relations.

Companies

• Governor Singapore International Foundation (2021)
• Associate Vice President (Global Relations) National University of Singapore (2021)
• Resident Fellow College of Alice & Peter Tan (2019)
• Senior Research Affiliate College of Europe (2015)
• Associate Professor in Political Science National University of Singapore (2012)
• Associate Fellow European Union Centre, Singapore (2009)
• Academic Director, Global Relations Office National University of Singapore (2019 — 2020)
• Director Of Studies College of Alice & Peter Tan (2011 — 2019)
• Council Member Singapore Institute of International Affairs (2005 — 2017)

Education

• Ph.D The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2001 — 2003)
• M.Phil University of Oxford (1999 — 2001)
• B.Soc.Sc (Hons) National University of Singapore (1990 — 1993)
• Hwa Chong Institution (1986 — 1987)
• GCE 'O' levels Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) (1976 — 1985)