Bates Gill

Bates Gill is an expert on Chinese foreign policy and politics and a former Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

Gill 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. His work has also encompassed other contemporary security-related issues including multilateral security organizations, the impact of domestic politics and development on the foreign policies of states, and the nexus of public health and security. Currently, his work focuses on Chinese foreign and security policy, the role of the Chinese Communist Party in the deliberation and implementation of Chinese foreign and security policy, and China's engagement of the Global South.

He is currently Executive Director of the Center for China Analysis with the Asia Society Policy Institute and a Senior Associate Fellow with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London. Before his current role, he was Professor and Chair, Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University. He was previously the chief executive officer of the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney (2012–2015). Prior to this, he was Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)(2007-2012). Before being named SIPRI Director in 2007, Gill held the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. from 2002. He served as a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and inaugural Director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., from 1998 to 2002.

He also held the Fei Yiming Chair in Comparative Politics at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China (1992-93) and the Sir Howard Kippenberger Chair in Strategic Studies at the Centre for Strategic Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand (2016). 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.