Selina Ho is Associate Professor in International Affairs and Co-Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. She researches Chinese politics and foreign policy. Specifically, she is interested in how China wields power and influence via infrastructure and water disputes in Southeast Asia and South Asia. Her work stands at the intersection of comparative politics and international relations. Selina 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). She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, including International Affairs, Chinese Journal of International Politics, Journal of Contemporary China, among others. Selina is the editor (with Kanti Bajpai) of Amsterdam University Press’s "Politics and International Relations in Asia" book series. She welcomes book proposals submissions to: https://www.aup.nl/en/series/politics-and-international-relations-in-asia

Selina served a two-year term as Chair of the Master in International Affairs Program from January 2019-December 2020. She has been a Council Member of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs since 2023. Selina was also a non-resident senior fellow with the Asia and Latin America Program at the Inter-American Dialogue (January 2022 to January 2025) and a Global Futures Council Fellow with the World Economic Forum (September 2017 to 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 (Honors). She graduated from the National University of Singapore with a B.A. in History (Honors). Prior to academia, Selina was a Singapore civil servant.

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