Dr Frederick Kliem is Adjunct Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Frederick is Director Southeast Asia of The Economist’s Corporate Network. Previously, he was the Head of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s (KAS) Regional Programme Energy Security and Climate Change Asia-Pacific. Fred is a seasoned analyst, consultant and government relations expert. A well-published thought-leader in the politics, the economy and sustainability of APAC, able to draw on two decades of experience working on and in the APAC region.
Outside of his work in the private sector, Fred was a full-time Research Fellow and Lecturer at RSIS as well as a regular guest lecturer at Singapore’s military officers’ academy (GKS Command and Staff College). His main academic research interests are regional integration and multilateralism as well as the (geo-)politics and economics of Asia and Europe, energy security and the impact of climate change and environmental challenges.
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).
