Kerry Brown is Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and Professor of Chinese Politics, and an Associate Fellow on the Asia Programme at Chatham House, London. Educated at Cambridge, London and Leeds universities, he worked in Japan and the Inner Mongolian region of China, before joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. He served as first secretary, Beijing and Head of the Indonesia East Timor Section.
Professor Brown completed a PhD at Leeds University in the area of Modern Chinese Language and Politics in 2004 and has published 11 books on China, the most recent being `The New Emperors: Power and the Princelings in China’ (2014) and `What’s Wrong With Diplomacy’ (2015). His study of Xi Jinping will be published next February.