Senior Analyst - China & Asia Pacific
On-siteLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Brief Tony Blair, senior leadership, government principals, and corporate clients on geopolitical developments across China and the Asia-Pacific region, translating complex political, security, trade, and technology shifts into clear implications for strategy, policy, and risk. Produce high-quality intelligence briefings, written analysis, and data-led insights on emerging risks and opportunities affecting supply chains, market exposure, and investment decisions. Identify second- and third-order impacts of foreign-policy developments and draw on internal capabilities and external expert networks to build robust perspectives using quantitative and qualitative methods, including data visualization and scenario analysis. Represent TBI in client briefings, workshops, and external engagements, including travel, while helping shape new analytical products and client propositions.
Required Qualifications
- Between 5-7 years' relevant professional experience
- Advanced degree in a relevant field, including Asian studies, international affairs, economics, political science or similar, or equivalent practical experience
- Demonstrated expertise in Chinese and/or Asian geopolitics, evidenced through a publication record, prior roles, or equivalent body of work
- Advanced proficiency in Mandarin, particularly reading, with the confidence to work directly with Chinese-language primary sources
- The demonstrated ability to produce sharp, senior-facing intelligence briefings as confidently as they conduct quantitative analysis
- Experience piecing together information from open sources, expert conversations, data, market indicators and institutional networks to generate original insight
- Strong networks across foreign policy, diplomatic, business and expert communities relevant to the Americas
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to brief senior public principals and C-suite clients with clarity, judgement and confidence
- Strong analytical capability across political risk, foreign policy, elections, trade and industrial policy, sanctions, technology, security and market impacts
- Experience using data visualisation, forecasting, scenario analysis, market data and Excel to support analysis
- An entrepreneurial, intellectually curious and self-starting approach, with the judgement to operate in ambiguous environments
- Strong relationship-building skills and the ability to work across TBI to access internal and external expertise
Desired Qualifications
- Familiarity with AI tools and an interest in applying them responsibly to improve analytical quality and productivity
- Exposure to client business development
- Additional areas of demonstrated thematic interest, including technology, trade, energy and security
- Additional regional languages
- Python
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