Dr Kerry Brown
PhD (Modern Chinese Language and Politics)
Overview
Biography
Kerry Brown is Senior Fellow at Chatham House on the Asia Programme and a Research Associate of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS. 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 currently sits on the board of the Great Britain China Centre and is an Associate of the China Policy Institute at Nottingham University.
He completed a PhD 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 is working on four books to be published over 2010 to 2011, including China 2020, Village Elections in China, a political biography of Hu Jintao, and a book about Taiwan.
