Educational Qualifications

2019
Ph.D. (Geography), University of Sydney, Australia

2013
Masters of Social Science (Geography), National University of Singapore

2010
Bachelor of Social Sciences (Hons), National University of Singapore

Academic and Professional Experience

2025 – Present
Lecturer, College of Interdisciplinary & Experiential Learning, Singapore University of Social Sciences

2025 – Present
Adjunct Fellow, East-West Center, Hawai‘i, USA

2023 – Present
Affiliate Graduate Faculty, Department of Geography & Environment, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA

2022 –  2025
Research Fellow, East-West Center, Hawai‘i, USA

2021
Part-Time Lecturer, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2019 – 2021
Lecturer, Pannasastra University of Cambodia, Siem Reap, Cambodia

2019 – 2020 
Lecturer, School for Field Studies, Cambodia

2017
Visiting Researcher, Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI), Cambodia

2013 – 2015
Research Analyst, Ministry of Defence, Singapore

Selected Publications

  • Yong, M.L. (2025) The fading heartbeat of the Mekong River Basin: Environmental security and Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 26(1), 91-100.
  • Tran, T.A., Rigg, J., Pham, V.H.T., Yong, M.L., Vo, O.V., Pham, P.X., Dang, P.T., Tran, H.V., Nguyen, C.H.T., & Vo, T.D. (2025) Erosion of traditional ecological knowledge under conditions of hydrosocial rupture: Insights from the Mekong floodplains communities. Ambio.
  • Tran, T.A. and Yong, M.L. (2025) Navigating water challenges in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: How can a shift in water management help? AsiaPacific Issues.
  • Yong, M.L., Grundy-Warr, C., and Lin, S. (2024) A politics of mobility and b/ordering in a changing riverscape in Cambodia. Pacific Affairs, 97(2), 285-311 
  • Tran, T.A., Tran, D.D., Vo, O.V., Pham, V.H.T., Tran, H.V., Yong, M.L., Le, P.V.L., & Dang, P.T. (2024) Evolving pathways towards water security in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: An adaptive management perspective. Ambio, 54(3), 460-474.
  • Yong, M.L. (2023) Hybrid governance, environmental justice, and hydropower development in the Mekong transboundary commons. WIREs Water, e1665.
  • Promkhambut, A., Yokying P., Woods, K., Fisher, M., Yong, M.L., Manorom, K., Baird, I.G., & Fox, J. (2023) Rethinking agrarian transition in Southeast Asia through rice farming in Thailand. World Development, 269, 106309
  • Yong, M.L. and Gillespie, J. (2022) Towards relational geometries of public participation and hydropower governance in the Lower Mekong River Basin. Political Geography, 99, 102773.
  • Yong, M.L. (2022) Transboundary environmental publics and hydropower governance in the Mekong River Basin: A contested politics of place, scale, and temporality. Environmental Policy and Governance, 32(4), 292-304
  • Yong, M.L. (2020) Reclaiming community spaces in the Mekong River transboundary commons: Shifting territorialities in Chiang Khong, Thailand. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 61(2), 203-218
  • Grundy-Warr, C., Sithirith, M., and Yong, M.L. (2014) Volumes, fluidity and flows: Rethinking the ‘nature’ of political geography. Political Geography, 45, 93-95
  • Middleton, C., Grundy-Warr, C. and Yong, M.L. (2013) Neoliberalizing hydropower in the Mekong Basin: The political economy of partial enclosure. Social Science Journal, 43 (2), 299-334
  • Yong, M.L. and Grundy-Warr, C. (2012) Tangled nets of discourse and turbines of development: Lower Mekong mainstream dam debates. Third World Quarterly, 33 (6), 1037-1058

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