Video & podcasts 2025
DIALOG ASEAN25: power plays in ASEAN's backyard and beyond
A conversation alongside Datuk Dr Ilango Karuppannan and Chhay Lim, moderated by Astro AWANI's Nailah Huda, unpacking key takeaways from the 47th Asean Summit.
Astro AWANI, 30 October 2025.
SNW 2025 HOTShot series – Protecting the digital future
Watch as Elina Noor, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, shakes up the conversation during her SNW 25 HOTShot interview. She talks about why Southeast Asia must wake up to the reality that subsea cables are the lifelines of its digital future and is calling for stronger governance, smoother regulations, and fresh voices at the table, even climate scientists. Elina warns of rising geopolitical pressures and urges countries to take charge, build resilience, and own their digital destiny.
Hot Telecom TV, 24 October 2025.
Power plays in KL
A conversation about U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Malaysia, which culminated in the signing of a strategic civil nuclear cooperation agreement.
BFM 's Morning Brief, 11 July 2025: https://www.bfm.my/content/podcast/power-plays-in-kl
The US, China, and a changing Asia
The geostrategic competition between the US and China continues to reshape the global economy—from the reconfiguration of supply chains, to the jostling for influence in Southeast Asia. So how should the region navigate an increasingly fragmented world order? On this episode of "Consider This", Melisa Idris speaks with Elina Noor, Senior Fellow of the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Professor Dr Danny Quah, Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics and Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS. Both were speakers at the Asia-Pacific Roundtable 2025, organised by ISIS Malaysia & ASEAN-ISIS.
Power rivalry and the third way
AWANI Global host Nailah Huda and analyst, Elina Noor unpack key takeaways from the 2025 Shangri-La Dialogue amid global power rivalry:
APEC Secretariat: The hidden costs of AI
Western Bias in AI: Why Local Models Matter for Southeast Asia
Many large language models (LLMs) are trained on data that reflects Western perspectives and the English language. But what does that mean for users in Southeast Asia, where over 1,200 languages are spoken?
In this video, Elina Noor and Binya Kanitroj explore how AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude struggle with cultural understanding, historical narratives, and identity. These blind spots aren't just small errors—they reflect a deeper issue of cultural representation in AI.
Now, developers across Southeast Asia are pushing back. They’re building AI models in languages like Thai, Malay, Indonesian, and Khmer to democratize AI access and challenge the dominance of Western and Chinese models. But they face tough choices: should they train new models from scratch or fine-tune existing ones? And how do they navigate the growing geopolitical competition over AI?
decolonising the developing world
A conversation with the Penang Institute, 3 February 2025.
Elina Noor on Geopolitics and U.S. Policy in Southeast Asia | Reconsidering Southeast Asia
On May 16, 2024, Stanford University's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) marked a quarter-century of our Southeast Asia Program by convening the conference “Reconsidering Southeast Asia: Issues and Prospects,” where esteemed scholars from Stanford, the United States, and Southeast Asia joined us to examine current issues affecting the region.
Panelists Elina Noor, Khong Yuen Foong, Gregory B. Poling, and Scot Marciel spoke about geopolitics and US Policy in Southeast Asia.