Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London. From 2012 to 2015, he was Professor of Chinese Politics and Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia. Prior to this, he worked at Chatham House from 2006 to 2012, as Senior Fellow and then Head of the Asia Programme. From 1998 to 2005, he worked at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as First Secretary at the British Embassy in Beijing, and then as Head of the Indonesia, Philippine, and East Timor Section. He lived in the Inner Mongolia region of China from 1994 to 1996. He directed the Europe China Research and Advice Network (ECRAN) giving policy advice to the European External Action Service between 2011 and 2014.
Brown is the author of over ten books on modern Chinese politics, history, and language, the most recent of which are The New Emperors: Power and the Princelings in China (I.B. Tauris, 2014), What’s Wrong with Diplomacy?: The Future of Diplomacy and the Case of China and the UK (Penguin, 2015) Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography (editor, Berkshire, 2014), CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping (I.B.Tauris, 2016), and China and the New Maoists (co-authored with Simone van Nieuwenhuizen, Zed Books, 2016). He is the author of one book of poetry, Lost Calls: 64 Poems (Library Partners Press, 2016).
Brown has a Master of Arts from Cambridge University, a Post Graduate Diploma in Mandarin Chinese (Distinction) from Thames Valley University, London, and a Ph.D. in Chinese politics and language from Leeds University.
