Harrison Cheng is a Director in Control Risks’ Global Risk Analysis team.
Based in our Singapore office, he leads a team of experts on political, regulatory and security risk assessment and mitigation. Harrison has over 10 years’ experience covering Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Cambodia. He is also responsible for delivery excellence and the design of risk methodologies for clients.
Recent tasks that Harrison has worked on include:
- Conducting stakeholder mapping for multinationals entering the oil and gas sector in Malaysia. This included detailed stakeholder profiles and targeted recommendations to clients on whom to engage with, key themes and issues to focus on, and timing considerations around political milestones.
- Providing risk advisory for clients facing increasingly hostile partnerships or regulatory obstruction in Southeast Asia. Recommendations were based on a robust understanding of threat actors, including their modus operandi, motivations, and vulnerabilities. This included scenario planning to help clients evaluate strategic options and mitigate reputational and operational risks.
- Delivering multi-market benchmarking assessments for multinationals seeking to enter Southeast Asia, focusing on a comparison of key country risks, tailored to sectors such as critical minerals, manufacturing, sourcing, digital infrastructure, and private education.
- Identifying and monitoring emerging risks for clients in the telecommunications and extractives sectors. This involved detailed consultations supported by curated data sources for ongoing monitoring.
- Developing a risk framework for a mining sector client to assess jurisdictional suitability for market entry based on risk appetite. This included consultations with clients to build out a set of key risks that form the foundation of country screening, which is then applied to specific jurisdictions of interest.
Before joining Control Risks, Harrison worked as a senior analyst at the Ministry of Defence in Singapore.
Harrison holds a master’s degree in social sciences and a bachelor’s (Honours) degree in political science from the National University of Singapore.