Drew Thompson

Drew Thompson is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University. He was previously a visiting senior research fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, where he taught graduate-level courses in US-China relations and practical political risk analysis. From 2011 to 2018, he was the director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense where he was responsible for supporting the secretary and managing military-to-military relations. His areas of expertise include US-China relations, cross-strait relations, Taiwan defence transformation and resilience, geopolitical risk analysis, as well as simulations and crisis management.