Professor of Politics & Head of the Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong
Mark R. Thompson is head of the Department of Asian and International Studies and director of the Southeast Asia Research Centre, both at the City University of Hong Kong. He wrote the introduction and contributed an article to a special section in the most recent issue of the Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs on the “Early Duterte Presidency” available online (https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jsaa/index).
Mark R Thompson taught in the United Kingdom (Glasgow), Germany (Muenster, Dresden, Passau and Erlangen-Nuremberg), and Japan (Keio University) before coming to CityU.
He is outgoing president of the Asian Political and International Studies Association, APISA. 2007-08 he was Lee Kong Chian Distinguished Fellow for Southeast Asian Studies at Stanford University and the National University of Singapore. He completed a German Research Council funded project on dynastic female leaders in Asia that was published as an edited volume "Dynasties and Female Leaders" (2013) and is working on an ongoing Hong Kong government GRF research project (together with William Case) about the problems of electoral democracies in Southeast Asia.
He is also currently working with Stephan Ortmann on a project about China's interest in the “Singapore Model" as well as a book about the post-Marcos Philippine presidency with Julio Teehankee.
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