The analysts behind the work.
A small resident team in London. Featured profile below.
London (Bloomsbury)
English · Mandarin · Japanese (working)
Russell Ziemann
Senior Analyst & Project Lead, Northriver Asia Policy Lab
高级分析师兼项目负责人（北河亚洲政策实验室）
Russell Ziemann is a Senior Analyst and Project Lead at Northriver Asia Policy Lab (NAPL). His work focuses on regional politics, foreign policy and international political economy in East Asia, with a particular emphasis on the United States, Japan, Taiwan and China.
He specialises in strategic intelligence and policy analysis, helping public and private sector clients navigate geopolitical risks in the Indo-Pacific. At NAPL he runs the Lab's core research pipeline and leads long-term client engagements for European corporates and investors.
Authors short policy memos and deeper notes on US–China, Japan–Taiwan and PRC external policy. Deliberately focused on a small set of themes — US–China tech competition, Japan–Taiwan security cooperation, European firms' risk in China.
Builds and curates NAPL's proprietary open-source database drawn from public sources and expert interviews. Delivers rolling geopolitical risk updates for 5–10 long-term clients.
Runs online and in-person briefings for European mid-market companies — typically 10–20 participants at management level — walking through US, Japan, Taiwan and China policy shifts.
Maintains NAPL's expert network in Tokyo, Taipei and Washington; runs a small programme of joint work with regional partners.