Educated at Cambridge, London and Leeds Universities, Dr Kerry Brown 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 is a Research Associate of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS, and was a Committee Member of the British Association of Chinese Studies from 2005 to 2009, and currently sits on the board of the Great Britain China Centre. He is also an Associate of the China Policy Institute at Nottingham University and of the LSE Ideas Centre and an advisory editor to the Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, published in Spring 2009, and editor of the Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, to be published in 2011.
He completed a PhD 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.
Speaker: Dr Kerry Brown- Writer, lecturer and consultant on China & Asia
Date: Tuesday 27th September
Time: 5pm
Venue: Great Hall, Brighton College