Dr Nicholas Wright applies neuroscientific and behavioural insights to decision-making in international confrontations, in ways practically applicable to policy. He focuses on real-world cases such as managing China-U.S. escalation scenarios. He is a non-resident associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington, DC) in addition to his role at Birmingham. Previously Dr Wright was a research fellow in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London and a visiting fellow in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. He also worked in internal medicine and then in clinical neurology in Oxford and London. He is a member of the Royal College of Physicians (UK).