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Nikos Alexandratos holds a DPhil in Economics from the University of Sussex. Until his recent retirement, he was Chief of the Global Perspective Studies Unit at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations.
Robert Ash is Chiang Ching-kuo Professor of Taiwan Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and Coordinator of the EU-China Academic Network (ECAN). From 1986 until 1995, he was director of the Contemporary China Instutute of SOAS. His current research interests embrace issues related to agricultural and rural development in China and Taiwan, as well as broader development issues in the economies of Greater China. He is co-editor (with Christopher Howe and Y.Y. Kueh) of Chinas Economic Reform: A Study with Documents.
Claude Aubert was educated as an argronomist. He is presently Directeur De Recherche at the French Institut de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA, Paris). He has done numerous field surveys in China and written extensively on the Chinese agricultural economy.
Judith Banister is Professor of Demography in the Social Science Division of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She previously headed the International Programs Center of the US Census Bureau. She is the author of Chinas Changing Population, as well as numerous articles and monographs on the demography of China and other Asian countries.
Jelle Bruisma holds an MA in Economics from the University of Amsterdam, as well as an MSc in Mathematics from the University of Utrecht. He is currently Chief of the Global Perspective Studies Unit at the Foods and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations.
Elisabeth Croll is Professor of Chinese Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Since 1973, she has undertaken frequent field studies and written widely on social development and gender issues in contemporary China. Her most recent books include From Heaven to Earth: Images of Development in China and Changing Identies of Chinese Women: Rhetoric, Experience and Self-Perception ini Twentieth-Century China.
Anthony Dicks is Professor of Chinese Law in the University of London. After teaching law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in the University of London, from 1974 he practised at the Bar in Hong Kong, specialising in international, commercial and maritime matters as well as various aspects of Chinese law. He was appointed a Queens Counsel in Hong Kong in 1994. In 1987, he became a visiting professor in the Department of Law at SOAS and in 1995 he was appointed Professor of Chinese Law in the University of London.
John Frankenstein is an independent scholar and consultant, resident in New York. He is concurrently a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States and a Research Associate at the East Asia Institute of Clumbia University. A former US diplomat, he has also held academic appointments at many university institutions in China, Europe, Hong Kong, Japan and the United States.
Bates Gill is Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. and inaugural Director of the Brookings Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies. A specialist in East Asian foreign policy and politics, he specialises in security and military-technical affairs in the region, especially with regard to China. He has recently published Contrasting Visions: US, China, and World Order.
Franois Godement is a Senior Associate of IFRI, the French Institute of International Relations, and Professor at INALCO (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales) in Paris. He is consultant to the Centre dAnalyse et de Prvision or Policy Planning Staff) at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has served as a consultant with several international organizations (OECD, European Union, World Bank). He is Co-chair of the European Committee of CSCAP (Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific) currently based at IFRI, and a founding member of CAEC (Council for Asia Europe Cooperation). A graduate of the Ecole Normale Suprieure de la rue dUlm (19681972), he was a postgraduate student at Harvard Universitys East Asian Research Centre in 19721973, and completed his Ph.D. in Chinese Contemporary History at EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) in 1977. He has written extensively on Chinas reforms and transition, East Asian international relations and the regional process. His recent publications include The New Asian Renaissance and The Downsizing of Asia.
Christopher Howe holds the Chair of Chinese Business Management in the Centre for Finance and Management Studies at the School of Oriental and Africa Studies (SOAS). He was formerly Professor of Economics with reference to Asia in the University of London. His research interests embrace the Chinese economy, Japans foreign trade sector, East Asian industrial development, and trade issues in the Asia-Pacific region. His recent publications include The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy and Chinas Economic Reform: A Study with Documents (co-edited with Y.Y. Kueh and Robert Ash).
Ku Hok-bun completed his doctorate, entitled Defining Zeren: Cultural Politics in a Chinese Village in the Department of Anthropology of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, in 1998. He is now an instructor in the Department of Sociology in the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Memhet gtu was formerly a Turkish diplomat and a graduate of the London School of Economics and College dEurope (Bruges). He is currently principal administrator in the OECD Secretariat in charge of non-member country issues, including China, South-East Europe and Ukraine. He has published widely in international journals on energy geopolitics in China, Eurasia and the Middle East, as well as on economic and trade diplomacy. His book publications include
