Staff profile
Fraser Thompson
Director
Fraser is an economist and entrepreneur, passionate about public policy and finding solutions to tackle sustainability challenges.
He is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Cyan Ventures, a specialist sustainability project development and advisory firm focused on creating Big Bets to accelerate the transition to a green, low-carbon economy.
He also serves on the board of the Climateworks Centre and as the domestic Chair of the Low Carbon Fuels Alliance in ANZ.
Prior to Cyan, Fraser co-founded Sun Cable — the development of the world’s largest solar farm, largest battery storage facility, and longest undersea HVDC cable, designed to deliver renewable electricity from Australia to Singapore.
Earlier, he co-founded and subsequently sold AlphaBeta, an economic strategy firm headquartered in Singapore, and spent nine years as a consultant at McKinsey & Company across the Middle East, London, and Singapore. This included leading McKinsey Global Institute, the economic research arm of McKinsey, on sustainability and resource efficiency topics.
Fraser began his career as an economist at the World Bank and as a lecturer in economics at the University of Oxford. He holds a Doctorate in Economics from Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
A longstanding advocate for deeper Australia–Southeast Asia ties, Fraser was the founder and inaugural President of the Australian Chamber of Commerce in ASEAN, which was launched with Prime Minister Turnbull in Singapore in 2017.