DR NATALIE K. SAMBHI

Through her research, presentations and publications, Dr Natalie Sambhi is committed to helping people gain a more nuanced understanding of Indonesian civil-military relations, Indonesian defence policy and Southeast Asian security.

Natalie is Founder and Executive Director of Verve Research, an independent think tank focussed on the relationship between militaries and societies in Southeast Asia. She is also a Senior Policy Fellow at Asia Society Australia and a Non-resident Fellow with the Brookings Institution’s Foreign Policy Program.

Natalie works as a lecturer at the Australian War College for Deakin University, convening modules for the Australian Command and Staff College and other programs. She has a PhD from the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, the Australian National University on the Indonesian military’s history. Follow her on Twitter @securityscholar.

← Back to Agenda