Neil William Thomson (born 23 May 1966) is a British conductor and conducting professor. Neil Thomson was born in London in 1966, and educated at Dulwich College. He then studied violin and viola at the Royal Academy of Music (1984–87) and conducting with Norman Del Mar at the Royal College of Music (1987–89). He was a member of the conducting class at Tanglewood Summer School in 1989 where his teachers included Gustav Meier, Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Sanderling and Leonard Bernstein.