Sharon Seah

Senior Fellow and concurrent Coordinator of the ASEAN Studies Centre and the Climate Change in Southeast Asia Programme, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute

Ms Sharon Seah is Senior Fellow and concurrent Coordinator of the ASEAN Studies Centre and the Climate Change in Southeast Asia Programme at the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. Prior to academia, Ms Seah spent fifteen years in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs including as a diplomat in the Singapore Embassy in Thailand (2003 – 2006) and in the National Environment Agency of Singapore. She was Associate Director at the Centre for International Law of the National University of Singapore immediately prior to joining ISEAS. Ms Seah graduated with a Master in Public and International Law from the University of Melbourne in 2018. Her research interests are in ASEAN, multilateralism, rule of law, and climate change. She is co-editor of Energy and Decarbonization in Southeast Asia (forthcoming 2025), Cities and the Climate Challenges in Southeast Asia (ISEAS Publishing: 2023), 50 Years of ASEAN and Singapore (World Scientific: 2017) and editor of Building a New Legal Order for the Oceans (NUS Press: 2019). She is also the lead author of The State of Southeast Asia Survey Report and the Southeast Asia Climate Outlook Survey.