Dr Huong Le Thu is a non-resident fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC. She has held positions with the Australian National University Strategic and Defence Studies Centre and the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. She is an advisor to Griffith Asia Institute (GAI) of the Griffith University, AP4D and affiliated with the Indo-Pacific Sea Power Centre of the Department of Defence. 

Dr Le Thu is a policy analyst and a recipient of numerous awards and grants. She is an expert on Southeast Asia, including on regional alignment politics, perceptions of great-power competition, and ASEAN. Her insights frequently features in global media, including The Foreign Policy, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Economist, Nikkei Asian Review, The Australian Financial Review, The Straits Times, Japan Times, among others.

Dr Le Thu is a prolific writer, her academic publications have featured in The Asian Security Journal, The Asia-Pacific Review, The Asian Policy, and Oxford University Press publications. She is also author of the Foreign Affairs essay How to Survive a Great-Power Competition: Southeast Asia’s Precarious Balancing Act (2023).