Dr Bill Durodié is Senior Fellow in the Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies (NTS) of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, where he is the academic advisor to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) funded Global Health and Human Security programme.

He previously coordinated the Homeland Defence programme there, in the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS), funded by the National Security Coordination Secretariat (NSCS) of the Ministry of National Development (MND).

In his latest role he coordinated the conference; ‘Strengthening Health and Non-Health Response Systems in Asia’, which critically examined the H1N1 outbreak and public responses to it. He is currently editing a series of publications emerging from this and pursuing projects examining responses to other presumed crises and emergencies.

His main research interest is in understanding the causes and consequences of contemporary perceptions of risk, and he teaches a course on ‘The Politics of Risk’ (IR 6019) to graduate students within the RSIS Masters programme, as well as continuing to engage on a variety of other speaking engagements and projects internationally. Recent commitments have seen him traveling to Australia, China, India, Indonesia, France, Germany, Denmark and the United Kingdom.

Prior to coming to Singapore, Dr Durodié was Senior Lecturer in Risk and Corporate Security at Cranfield University, UK, and Senior Research Fellow in the International Policy Institute of King’s College London, after having studied at New College Oxford, the London School of Economics and Imperial College London. In 2007 he was awarded a PhD by Public Works from Middlesex University.

He has been widely published and has an extensive media profile. He is a fellow of several national and international bodies, including Chatham House in 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