Dr Tharishini Krishnan

Dr. Tharishini Krishnan is a senior lecturer at the Department of Strategic Studies, Faculty of Defence Studies and Management, National Defence University Malaysia. She did her first degree in International Relations in 2005 and furthered her Masters in Strategy and Security Analyses in 2008 at the National University of Malaysia. After joining as an academic staff at the National Defence University of Malaysia (NDUM), she went abroad to King’s College London in 2012 to pursue a PhD Degree on Contemporary India Research at the King’s India Institute.

In 2016- 2017, she was appointed as the fellow of Joint Chair of Derby – NDUM. She has been a member of Indian Ocean Research Group since 2017. She was 2019 ASEAN-India Youth Summit participant where she was awarded the ASEAN-India Youth Award for Malaysian category by the Government of India. Concurrently, she is a research fellow at the Centre of Defence and International Security Studies, NDUM and the head research cluster for Global Security and International Relations at her faculty. She is also the coordinator for the Master in Strategic and Defence Studies program in her department. She has also been as an invited speaker at Malaysian Institute of Defence and Security (MIDAS) and Maritime Department of Indonesia Defence University.

Her teaching experiences covers various areas of International Relations and Strategic Studies subjects. She also lectures the Malaysian Armed Forces Staff College (MTAT). She supervised research in the field of maritime studies and policies.