Dr. Kerry Brown, Head of the Asia Programme, Chatham House

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Kerry Brown is Head of the Asia Programme at Chatham House on the Asia Programme. 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 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 Chinese Communist Party’ was published in July 2009. He is also a Team Leader of the EUROPE – CHINA RESEARCH AND ADVICE NETWORK (ECRAN)

He has been consulted on China by companies, NGOs and governments. He has worked for Amnesty, Royal College of Art, CLSA, Kent County Council, Cobbetts, Mazurs, W H Irelands, Hong Kong Trade and Economic Office, the Asia Pacific Technology Network, Oxford Analytica, Hakluyt, and the Special Schools and Academies Trust. He is a core associate of XRG Hong Kong, a founder member of the China Advisers Network , and sits on the Board of China Dialogue.