Mustafa Izzuddin is a Fellow at Residential College 4 and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at NUS College and Global Studies, National University of Singapore (NUS). Mustafa is concurrently a Senior International Affairs Analyst with Solaris Strategies Singapore, through which he does his media punditry, and Visiting Professor in International Relations at the Islamic University of Indonesia. He received his PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and subsequently served as Research Fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute and the Institute of South Asian Studies. He was an ASEAN Fulbright Scholar at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, Global Public Policy Network Fellow at Peking University China, Academic Visitor (grant by Dawoodi Bohra Foundation) at the University of Oxford’s School of Global and Area Studies, Visiting Fellow (grant by Aga Khan Foundation) at the Institute of Ismaili Studies and the University of Cambridge’s Woolf Institute, Lee Kong Chian Research Fellow with the National Library Board Singapore, and Fellow in Civilizational Dialogue at the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) in Morocco. He also served as Associate Professor and Executive Director of Nehginpao Kipgen Centre of Southeast Asian Studies at OP Jindal Global University India and Director of International Relations Studies at the Beaconhouse National University Pakistan. Based on his decades of voluntary leadership in championing socio-cultural causes, philanthropic contributions to education, academic achievements, and being a leading voice in interfaith bridge-building, Mustafa was listed as one of the top 500 most influential Muslims of the world for 2024 and 2025, and recipient of the National Youth Achievement Gold Award. He sits on the international editorial boards of a dozen academic journals, and his research includes the international politics of Southeast Asia, migration studies, religious governance and interfaith dialogue, and Islam in world politics.