Nava Nuraniyah is a former analyst with the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) Jakarta and presently completing a PhD at the Australian National University, Canberra. Before joining IPAC in 2014, she worked as a researcher on terrorism and radicalisation in Indonesia at the Centre of Excellence for National Security, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore. She holds a Master of Arts in International Relations, with Honours, and a Master of Diplomacy from the Australian National University. She obtained a BA in International Relations from Muhammadiyah University, Yogyakarta, and was trained in Arabic and Islamic studies at pesantrens in East Java and Yogyakarta.