Dr Bill Durodié is an Associate Fellow of the International Security Programme of the Royal Institute of International Affairs – Chatham House – in London. He is currently based in Singapore where, for the last three years, he coordinated various security-related research programmes at Nanyang Technological University.

His current interest is in examining how businesses come under sustained attack from small groups of unrepresentative activists on the one hand, and then nervous governments and elites on the other who, having lost their own sense of purpose and direction, now pander to minority voices, falsely assuming these to represent majority views.

His wider research has consistently sought to understand the causes and consequences of contemporary perceptions of risk, and he has lectured and published very widely in this area. Many of his publications, and a full list of presentations, are available at; www.durodie.net.

Prior to his being in Singapore, Dr Durodié was Senior Lecturer in Risk and Corporate Security at Cranfield University, UK, and before that Senior Research Fellow in the International Policy Institute of King’s College London. He featured in the BAFTA award-winning BBC documentary series produced by Adam Curtis; “The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear”, and was one of the founders of the Manifesto Club.