Research Associate

Ms Syeda Sana Rahman
Email: isasssr@nus.edu.sg
Tel: (65) 6516 7023
Fax: (65) 6776 7505 / (65) 631 5447

Ms Syeda Sana Rahman graduated from the National University of Singapore in December 2008 with a First Class Honours degree in Political Science. She was also named the Valedictorian, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, for the class of 2009.

In partial fulfillment of her Honours Degree, Sana wrote her thesis on terrorism and counter-terrorism in Southeast Asia, with a focus on Indonesia. During her time at NUS, Sana also received the NTUC Gold Medal for Most Outstanding Performance in the third year examinations and the Special Book Prize for most outstanding performance in Political Science in her second year. She had also been consistently placed on the Dean’s list for meritorious academic performance.

Prior to joining ISAS, Sana worked as a journalist for such organisations as CNN-IBN (India), MediaCorp Pvt Ltd and Singapore Press Holdings (Singapore). By the age of 19, Sana had co-authored Doing A Little Good (Singapore: Riding for the Disabled Association of Singapore, 2003), a coffee table book for fund raising purposes. She has also contributed to the creative anthologies Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover (Singapore: Beaumont Publishing & Ngee Ann Polytechnic, 2003) and For the Love of God (Singapore: Beaumont Publishing, 2004).