Robert Beckman is Head of the Ocean Law and Policy Programme at the Centre for International Law (CIL) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and was the founding Director of CIL. He is also an Emeritus Professor at the NUS Faculty of Law where he taught Ocean Law and Policy and other courses in public international law for more than 40 years. Since 2009 he has lectured at the Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy in Rhodes, Greece, and he is a member of the Governing Board for the Rhodes Academy. He has published widely on ocean law and policy issues. Prof Beckman is also a Senior Advisor to the Maritime Security Programme of the Institute for Defence & Strategic Studies (IDSS) at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.
