Bates Gill

Professor Gill is an expert on Chinese foreign policy and currently the Executive Director of the Centre for China Analysis at the Asia Society Policy Institute.

He is also a former Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

In 2013, he received the Royal Order of the Commander of the Polar Star, the highest award bestowed upon foreigners by the Swedish monarch, for his services to Sweden.

He has a long record of research and publication on both international and regional security issues. These include arms control, non-proliferation, peacekeeping and military-technical development—and all mainly with regard to China and the Asia-Pacific region.

In recent years his work has broadened to encompass other contemporary security-related trends including multilateral security organisations, the impact of domestic politics and development on the foreign policies of states, and the nexus of public health and security.