DR. BATES GILL
Since July 2002, Dr. Bates Gill has held the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He previously served as a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and inaugural Director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. He has also directed East Asia programs at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute, Monterey, California and at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, and formerly held the Fei Yiming Chair in Comparative Politics at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese and American Studies, Nanjing, China.
A specialist in East Asian foreign policy and politics, his research focuses primarily on Northeast Asian political, foreign policy, and social issues, especially with regard to China. His current projects focus on U.S.-China-Europe relations, on China’s growing influence in Asian regional affairs, and on China’s challenging domestic policy agenda.
He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of six books, including, Rising Star: China’s New Security Diplomacy (Brookings, forthcoming in 2007), as well as China: The Balance Sheet: What the World Needs to Know Now About the Emerging Superpower (PublicAffairs, 2006), Weathering the Storm: Taiwan, Its Neighbors, and the Asian Financial Crisis (Brookings, 2000), Chinese Arms Acquisitions from Abroad (Oxford, 1994), Arms Trade Transparency in Southeast Asia (Oxford, 1996), and Chinese Arms Transfers (Praeger, 1991).
He has recently published his work in such journals as Foreign Affairs, Survival, and National Interest, and issued opinion pieces in such newspapers as the International Herald Tribune, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the South China Morning Post. Other recent work has included policy reports on China’s role in Central Asia, on China’s military-technical relationship with foreign partners, and on the increasingly complex U.S.-China economic and trade relationship.
His editorial in the New York Times in July 2001 and his article in Foreign Affairs in March 2002 helped focus the attention of the U.S. policy community on China’s looming HIV/AIDS challenge. He followed that work by authoring and co-authoring three major monographs reporting on China’s progress in addressing its HIV/AIDS epidemic: Assessing HIV/AIDS Initiatives in China: Persistent Challenges and Promising Ways Forward (June 2005), Defusing China’s Time Bomb: Sustaining the Momentum of China’s HIV/AIDS Response (June 2004), and Averting a Full-Blown HIV/AIDS Epidemic in China (February 2003) (all published by the CSIS Press and available at http://www.csis.org/china/HIV_crisis.cfm).
Among his professional affiliations, Dr. Gill serves on the Board of Directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, the U.S.-China Policy Foundation, the American Association for Chinese Studies, the Feris Foundation of America, and the China-Merck AIDS Partnership. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Contemporary China, China Security, China-Eurasia Forum Quarterly, and the Hong Kong Journal, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He has consulted for a number of corporations, U.S. government agencies, and philathropic organizations, and has lectured widely and provided Congressional testimony on a range of issues related to China.
Dr. Gill received his Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs in 1991 from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, USA. He has lived more than two years in China and Taiwan, and more than five years in Europe (France, Sweden, Switzerland). A frequent visitor to East Asia, Dr. Gill speaks, reads, and writes in Chinese, English, and French. He and his wife of 20 years, Dr. Sarah Palmer, a virologist, reside in Maryland, U.S.A. |