Selina Ho

Selina Ho is Assistant Professor in International Affairs at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. She specializes in Chinese politics and foreign policy, with a focus on infrastructure politics and water disputes. Her work stands at the intersection of comparative politics and international relations. She is the author of Thirsty Cities: Social Contracts and Public Goods Provision in China and India (Cambridge University Press, 2019), co-author (with David M. Lampton and Cheng-Chwee Kuik) of Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia (University of California Press 2020), and co-editor (with Kanti Bajpai and Manjari Chatterjee Miller) of The Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations (2020). Selina has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, including International Affairs (ranked no. 1 in JCR in the category of International Relations), Chinese Journal of International Politics, Journal of Contemporary China, among others. She is series editor (with Kanti Bajpai) of the "Politics and International Relations in Asia" book series under Amsterdam University Press's Asian Studies series.

Selina served a two-year term as Chair of the Master in International Affairs Program from January 2019-December 2020. She is currently a non-resident senior fellow with the Asia and Latin America Program at the Inter-American Dialogue and a non-resident senior fellow of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. She was appointed a Global Futures Council Fellow with the World Economic Forum in September 2017-September 2018.

Selina received her Ph.D. from The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, where she also received a Master in International Public Policy (Honours). She graduated from the National University of Singapore with a B.A. in History (Honours). She was a Singapore civil servant before joining academia.