Neil Thomas

Neil Thomas is a Senior Fellow on Chinese Politics at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis, where he leads the Center’s work on elite politics, policymaking, and the domestic-foreign policy nexus, and co-leads the Decoding Chinese Politics initiative. He previously served as a Senior Analyst at Eurasia Group, a Senior Research Associate at MacroPolo, 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 written for publications including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, TIME, and The Washington Post. He holds a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University, a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Australia, and certificates from Renmin University, Tsinghua University, and Zhejiang University.