Dr Frederick Kliem is Adjunct Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Frederick is Director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s (KAS) Regional Programme Energy Security and Climate Change Asia-Pacific based in Hong Kong SAR, China. Previously, he was Research Fellow and Lecturer at RSIS as well as a regular guest lecturer at Singapore’s military officers’ academy (GKS Command and Staff College) and a freelance Consultant to businesses and civil society organisations.
Frederick’s main research interests are regional integration and multilateralism in as well as the geopolitics of Asia and Europe, regional institutions and order building as well as energy security and the impact of climate change and environmental challenges. He frequently appears on Singaporean as well as international TV, radio and print media as well as on numerous podcasts. The main objective of Frederick’s work is to foster dialogue on eye-level and greater mutual understanding between Europe and Asia.
His latest books are Great Power Competition and Order Building in the Indo-Pacific: Towards a New Indo-Pacific Equilibrium(London and New York: Routledge, 2022) and The Elgar Companion to ASEAN (together with Dosch, J. eds.; Cheltenham: Edwarrd Elgar Publishing, 2023).
