Senior Fellow
Dr Elspeth Thomson

Originally from Canada, Dr Elspeth Thomson has lived in Singapore since year 2000. She is a Senior Fellow at the Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS). She received her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Besides her book tracing the history of China’s coal industry, and several edited collections, she has published numerous articles and book chapters on many aspects of the various types of energy consumed and traded in Southeast, North and South Asia.

Her particular interests include the planning and use of energy by military forces, including land, air and sea, in combat operations as well as peace-keeping and humanitarian activities; cyber threat and critical energy infrastructure protection; and energy use in the aviation sector.

Through the 1990s she taught at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and Lingnan University in Hong Kong. From 2001-2007, she was a Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute at NUS where she was a China energy specialist.

Books (sole author)
The Chinese Coal Industry: An Economic History (London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), 412 pp.

Edited Books
Energy Conservation in East Asia: Towards Greater Energy Security, edited by Elspeth Thomson, Chang Youngho and Jae-Seung Lee and (Singapore: World Scientific, 2010).

Energy Efficiency Policy Development in Southeast Asia and Beyond, edited by Elspeth Thomson, Dickson Yeo and Geoffrey Pakiam (Singapore: Stallion Press, 2010).