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Bates Gill

Bates Gill holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS. He previously 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 1992–93, he held the Fei Yiming Chair in Comparative Politics at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese and American Studies, Nanjing, China.

His current research examines China's domestic social, economic, and political transformation, including a focus on the country's looming HIV/AIDS challenge. He is the author of three books and co-editor of two others, including the forthcoming, Rising Star: China's New Security Diplomacy. He has recently published his work in Foreign Affairs, Survival, and National Interest, and in the International Herald Tribune, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Washington Times.

Dr. Gill serves on the boards of the National Committee on United States–China Relations, the US-China Policy Foundation, the American Association for Chinese Studies, the Feris Foundation of America, and the China-Merck HIV/AIDS Public Private Partnership, and is a senior advisor to the US–Asia Institute. He is also on the editorial boards of the Journal of Contemporary China, the Hong Kong Journal, and China Security. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute of Strategic Studies. Dr. Gill received his PhD in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia.