Melinda Martinus

Ms. Melinda Martinus is Lead Researcher at the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. Her research interests revolve around sustainable development, climate governance, institutional frameworks, and policies for advancing climate ambition in ASEAN countries.

Melinda is Production Editor of the ASEAN Studies Centre’s blogpost, ASEANFocus+ at Fulcrum.sg. She is one of the editors of the institute’s two annual survey reports, the State of Southeast Asia and the Southeast Asia Climate Outlook. Before joining ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, she was a programme manager at Kota Kita Foundation, Indonesia, and a researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies (Centropolis) at Tarumanagara University Jakarta.

She studied urban planning at Tarumanagara University, Jakarta, and Columbia University, New York.