Bill Drexel

Bill Drexel is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. His work focuses on United States–India relations, artificial intelligence competition with China, and technology in American grand strategy.

Previously, Mr. Drexel worked on technology and national security at the Center for a New American Security, humanitarian innovation at the United Nations, and on Indo-Pacific affairs at the American Enterprise Institute. Mr. Drexel’s field experience includes serving as a rescue boat driver during Libya’s migration crisis, conducting investigative research in the surveillance state of Xinjiang, China, and supporting humanitarian data efforts across wartime Ukraine.

Mr. Drexel’s opinion is regularly sought out by outlets like The Economist, TIME, and CNN, and his writings have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and Politico.

Mr. Drexel holds a BA from Yale University and an MPhil from Cambridge University. He was awarded the Schwarzman Scholarship to Tsinghua University, Beijing, and the Fox Fellowship to Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.