Dr. Bates Gill has a 30-year global career as an internationally-respected institution-builder, policy advisor, consultant, board director, and scholar, with a particular focus on China and Indo-Pacific affairs.  He is Senior Fellow for Asian Security with the National Bureau of Asian Research, a Senior Fellow with the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, and a Senior Associate Fellow with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI, London). 

Among other positions, he previously served as Executive Director of the Asia Society Center for China Analysis, the Director and chief executive of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and inaugural Director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, and the Fei Yiming Chair in Comparative Politics at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese and American Studies, Nanjing, China. 

Dr. Gill has a long record of research and publication, resulting in more than 200 publications and research-related travel to more than 55 countries, and has consulted for corporations, government agencies, and philanthropic organizations. His most recent book is Daring to Struggle: China’s Global Ambitions under Xi Jinping (Oxford University Press, 2022). 

Among his international honours, Dr. Gill holds the Royal Order of the Commander of the Polar Star (post-nominal: KNO), the highest award bestowed upon foreigners by the Swedish monarch, for his contributions to Swedish interests.  He has lived three years in China and Taiwan, 12 years in Europe (France, Sweden, Switzerland), and 12 years in Australia.  Dr. Gill received his Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia.