Besides her role as chair of Protection International, Alice Nah is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York, UK. In this role, she conducts research on the security and protection of human rights defenders at risk, and on asylum and migration in Asia.

Alice has worked as a consultant for organisations such as Médecins Sans Frontières, the International Labour Organisation, and Forum Asia. She has also published in peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Human Rights Practice, the Australian Journal of Human Rights, and the Asian Journal of Social Science.