Noory Okthariza is researcher at the Department of Politics and Social Change with a particular focus on the issues of party politics, election, and political Islam. He also works as an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Universitas Pembangunan Nasional (UNP) Veteran, Jakarta. He has published in Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Indonesian Quarterly,, Palgrave Macmillan, and Routledge. He earned his MA (Political Science) from Ohio University, funded by the Fulbright Scholarship. He is an incoming PhD student in Political Science at University of Maryland.