Dr. Shafiah Muhibat is a senior researcher at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta. She has been part of CSIS’ research team in the Department of International Relations since 2000, where she has done and taken part in extensive research projects on politics and regional security in Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific. She has special interest in issues of regional security cooperation, maritime security, and international development cooperation.

Since 2013, she is the Chief Editor of The Indonesian Quarterly, a quarterly academic journal published by CSIS.

She obtained a Masters degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Hamburg.

She regularly gives lectures at several government institutions on issues related to Indonesia’s foreign policy, security, and defence. From 2005 to 2009, she was an adjunct lecturer at several private universities in Indonesia.

Her latest publications are Evolving Approaches to Regional Security Cooperation: A conceptual analysis of cooperative security with illustrations of practices in East Asia (Baden-baden: Nomos Publishers, 2013); and Untuk Indonesia 2014-2019: Agenda Sosial-Politik dan Keamanan (Jakarta: CSIS, 2014).