Curriculum Vitae

Dr Cherian George is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies. His full-time position is at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, where he heads the journalism division. He is also a Research Associate of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University, Australia.

He works in the areas of media and politics. Dr George’s current research interests include alternative, independent media in Asia, and the political economy of journalism.

Prior to taking up his appointment at Nanyang Technological University, Dr George was a post-doctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He has a PhD in Communication from Stanford University, where he wrote his dissertation on internet-based alternative journalism in Singapore and Malaysia. He is also a graduate of the Journalism School at Columbia University, and of Cambridge University, where he read social and political sciences.

Before moving to academia, he spent 10 years at The Straits Times, where he wrote mainly on domestic politics and media issues. Dr George remains active in professional journalism, as the editor and publisher of What's Up, an independent monthly current affairs newspaper for schools.