Kaiser Quo is Senior Analyst at the Military Studies Programme within the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University. He was formerly a Foreign Service Advisor with the United States Department of the Navy in the Office of Naval Research Global. In this capacity, he brought economic expertise to a range of interconnecting policy areas to provide military-oriented science and technology expert guidance, driving transformative initiatives that strengthened naval operations and advanced key defence priorities. Prior to joining RSIS, he also consulted for the Centre of Excellence for National Security in co-chairing the first meeting of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Study Group on the Safety and Security of Digital Infrastructure (SSDI).
His research interests include Defence Economics (Military Keynesianism, Guns Versus Butter Trade-off, Military-Industrial Complex, and Integrated Deterrence); Public role in Emerging Technologies (Industrial Policies, Innovation Mercantilism, and Decoupling, Path Dependency, Endogenous Innovation, and Growth, Strategic Export Controls for National and Economic Security, and Public-Private Partnerships); Securitisation Theory and the Copenhagen School; and New Institutional Economics and New Comparative Economics.
