Bates Gill

Dr. Bates Gill (/beɪts gɪl/, Chinese: 季北慈, born 1959) is an American expert on Chinese foreign policy and a former Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
Dr 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. In recent years his work has broadened to encompass other contemporary security-related trends 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 US foreign policy in Asia.
In March 2012, Dr Gill was appointed as the chief executive officer of the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. Through teaching, study and internship abroad, research, and public outreach, the USSC seeks to raise awareness and understanding about America in Australia and around the globe, and aims to become one of the world's leading centers for the study of the United States.

Gill received his Ph.D in Foreign Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville in 1991. His thesis investigated the role of weapons transfer in forming the foreign policy of China and was entitled "Fire of the Dragon: Arms Transfers in Chinese Security Policy". He received his B.A from Albion College, Michigan with a double major in Political Science and French. He is fluent in Chinese, English, and French.

Prior to his appointment as the chief executive officer of the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney in 2012, Gill held the post of SIPRI Director, a position he held for five years. 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.

Before his work at Brookings, Dr. Gill's previous assignments included directing the East Asia programmes at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, in Monterey, California. He also held the Fei Yiming Chair in Comparative Politics at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese and American Studies, at Nanjing University in China. For his work with Johns Hopkins University and his subsequent accomplishments, he was inducted to the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars in 2007. In 2013, he received the Royal Order of the Commander of the Polar Star, the highest chivalric order a foreigner can receive in Sweden. It was bestowed by His Highness the King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf for Gill's service to Sweden.

Books

Dr. Gill has authored or edited eight books:

• Governing the Bomb: Civilian Control and Democratic Accountability of Nuclear Weapons (Oxford University Press, 2010), co-edited with Hans Born and Heiner Hänggi
• Asia's New Multilateralism: Cooperation, Competition, and the Search for Community (Columbia University Press, 2009), co-edited with Michael J. Green
• Rising Star: China's New Security Diplomacy (Brookings Institution Press, 2007, revised edition in 2010, published in Japanese in 2014)
• China: The Balance Sheet: What the World Needs to Know Now about the Emerging Superpower (PublicAffairs, 2006), co-authored with C. Fred Bergsten, Nicholas Lardy, and Derk Mitchell
• Weathering the Storm: Taiwan, Its Neighbors and the Asian Financial Crisis (Brookings Institution Press, 2000), co-edited with Peter Chow
• China’s Arms Acquisitions from Abroad: A Quest for ‘Superb and Secret Weapons’ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), co-authored with Taeho Kim
• Arms, Transparency and Security in Southeast Asia (Oxford University Press, 1997), co-edited with J. N. Mak
• Chinese Arms Transfers (Praeger Publishers, 1992)

He was also the publisher of the SIPRI Yearbook during his tenure as SIPRI Director. http://www.sipriyearbook.org/

• Feris Foundation of America, Board member
• Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Board member
• Center for Democratic Control of Armed forces, Board member
• ISIS-Europe, Board Member
• China-Merck AIDS Partnership, Board member
• Asia Society Policy Advisory Board member
• Shanghai Institute of International Studies, Advisory Board member
• Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore, Board member
• Journal of Contemporary China, China Security, China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, Security Challenges Editorial Board member
• Council on Foreign Relations, member
• International Institute for Strategic Studies, member

Bates Gill has been married to Dr. Sarah Palmer, a virologist, since 1986. In addition to the United States, they have lived and worked for lengthy periods in Australia, China, Switzerland, Sweden, and Taiwan, and visited over 60 countries for professional and personal travel.