Neil Thomas

Neil Thomas is a Fellow on Chinese Politics at Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis, where he studies elite politics, political economy, and foreign policy. Previously, he was a Senior Analyst for China and Northeast Asia at Eurasia Group, the world’s leading political risk advisory and consulting firm, a Senior Research Associate at MacroPolo, the in-house think tank of the Paulson Institute, and a lecturer at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. He has testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and his writing appears in publications including Foreign Policy, The Lowy Interpreter, and The Washington Post. He is regularly quoted by major media outlets such as Bloomberg News, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He holds a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Australia, and certificates from Renmin University, Tsinghua University, and Zhejiang University.