Kerry Brown - Writer, lecturer and consultant on China & Asia
 Kerry Brown is Head of the Asia Programme at Chatham House, and leads the Europe China Research and Advice Network (ECRAN). Educated at Cambridge, London and Leeds Universities, he worked in Japan, Australia, and the Inner Mongolian region of China, before joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. He worked in the China Section and then served as First Secretary, Beijing, from 2000 to 2003, and Head of the Indonesia East Timor Section at the FCO from 2003 to 2005. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, at SOAS, and was a Committee Member of the British Association of Chinese Studies from 2005 to 2009, and currently sits on the board of the Great Britain China Centre. He is also an Associate of the China Policy Institute at Nottingham University and of the LSE Ideas Centre and an advisory editor to the Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, published in Spring 2009, and editor of the Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, to be published in 2011.
He completed a Ph D at Leeds University in Modern Chinese Language and Politics in 2004, which has since been published as part of the Global Oriental Cambridge University Inner Asian Studies Series. His `Struggling Giant: China in the 21st Century’ was published in June 2007, and `The Rise of the Dragon – Chinese Investment Flows in the Reform Period’ in February 2008. He has been published in The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Far Eastern Economic Review, Index on Censorship, and other publications in the US, Europe, China, Hong Kong, and Australia, and commented on China for the BBC, ITN, ABC, the Today Programme, Al Jazeera, CNN and others. His `Friends and Enemies: The Past, Present and Future of the Communist Party of China' was published in 2009.
He has been consulted on China by companies, NGOs and governments. He has worked for Amnesty, Royal College of Art, Oxford Analytica, Hakluyt, CLSA, BP, Kent County Council, Cobbetts, Mazurs, W H Irelands, Hong Kong Trade and Economic Office, the Asia Pacific Technology Network, and the Special Schools and Academies Trust. He sits on the Board of China Dialogue. He has also worked for the Xian, Beijing and Chongqing Hi Tech Zones in China.
He is currently working on `China 2020', to be published at the end of March 2011, a study of Taiwan's place in the global economy which appeared in the Autumn of 2010, a book on Chinese elections, `Ballot Box China' which will come out in April 2011. A political biography of Hu Jintao is due to appear in late 2011.
He can be contacted on 07723 054525
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