Michael Wills

Michael Wills is the Director for Research and Operations at NBR.

As the Director of Research and Operations, Mr. Wills is responsible for managing the operations of NBR's research programs in collaboration with project directors and executive management team.

Mr. Wills was formerly Director of NBR's Strategic Asia Program (2001-07), and Director of the Southeast Asia Studies Program (2001-06). He is co-editor (with Ashley J. Tellis) of Strategic Asia 2006-07: Trade, Interdependence, and Security (2006), Strategic Asia 2005-06: Military Modernization in an Era of Uncertainty (2005), and Strategic Asia 2004-05: Confronting Terrorism in the Pursuit of Power (2004). He was a contributing editor to Strategic Asia 2003-04: Fragility and Crisis (2003) and Strategic Asia 2002-03: Asian Aftershocks (2002) and has served as technical editor on numerous books, including China, the United States and South-East Asia: Contending Perspectives on Politics, Security and Economics (2007), Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia: Disrupting Violence (2006), Strategic Asia 2001-02: Power and Purpose (2001), and The Many Faces of Asian Security (2001).

Before joining NBR, Mr. Wills worked at the Cambodia Development Resource Institute in Phnom Penh, and prior to that with the international political and security risk management firm Control Risks Group in London. He holds a B.A. (Honors) in Chinese Studies from the University of Oxford.

Mr. Wills research interests include international security affairs, the international relations of Asia (particularly China's relations with Southeast Asia), and transnational terrorism and religious violence.

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