Dr Alistair D. B. Cook is the Coordinator of the Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief [HADR] Programme and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests focus on humanitarian affairs, disaster governance, foreign policy and regional cooperation in the Asia-Pacific. He was a Visiting Scholar at the East-West Center and Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA in May-June 2022. He also served as the President (2018 – 2021) and Secretary-Treasurer (2014 – 2018) of the Asia-Pacific Region of the International Studies Association.