Alvin Camba is a nonresident fellow in the Indo-Pacific Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Camba is the director of research and lead scientist at Lyvi, an AI company that focuses on risk assessment, supply chains, and investment analysis in critical resources and strategic industries. He is also a senior adjunct scientist at the Associated Universities, Inc., where he is part of the Beacons Project, an initiative funded by the US Department of Defense dedicated to building US battery capacity and strengthening downstream critical mineral supply chains.

He earned his doctorate in sociology from Johns Hopkins University and is a widely published expert on China–Southeast Asia relations, with more than twenty-eight peer-reviewed publications, seventeen policy reports, fourteen book chapters, and fifty short-form essays. His work has received multiple best paper awards from leading academic associations, and he has contributed to major policy studies for institutions such as the US Institute of Peace, the International Republican Institute, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Camba has served as principal investigator for internationally competitive grants, testified before the Philippine Senate and the International Criminal Court, and briefed organizations including the EU Directorate-General for Environment, the World Bank, the US State Department, and US intelligence agencies, while also being featured in outlets such as the Economist, Financial Times, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, and NPR.