Bates Gill

Biography

Bates Gill is Professor of Asia Pacific Strategic Studies with the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University. He was formerly the Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) from 2007 to 2012 and previously held senior positions leading China- and Asia-focused programs at the Brookings Institution and the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. In 2015, the Chinese Foreign Affairs University named him as among the top 10 American China watchers. He held the 2016 Kippenberger Chair in Strategic Studies with the Centre for Strategic Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. His publications have appeared in China Quarterly, Foreign Affairs, Survival, National Interest, Current History and New England Journal of Medicine, among others. A career-long observer of Chinese politics, foreign policy, and U.S.-China relations, he has published 8 books, including, most recently, China Matters: Getting it Right for Australia (LaTrobe University Press/Black Inc) (with Linda Jakobson).