Dr Bates Gill
Born: 1959
Citizenship: United States
Position at SIPRI:
Director
Subject expertise:
International and regional security; arms control; non-proliferation; strategic nuclear relations; peacekeeping and military-technical development (esp. China and Asia); multilateral security organizations; domestic influences on foreign and security policy; public health and security
Regional expertise:
China, Taiwan, East Asia
Languages:
English, Chinese, French
Education:
PhD in Foreign Affairs,
Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, USA
Contact: director@sipri.org; Phone: +46 8 655 97 50 (Special Assistant Ms Cynthia Loo)
Dr Bates Gill has a long record of research and publication on international and regional security issues, including regarding arms control, non-proliferation, peacekeeping and military-technical development, especially with regard to China and Asia. In recent years, his work has broadened to encompass other contemporary security-related trends, including multilateral security organizations, the impact of domestic politics and development on the foreign policies of states, and the nexus of public health and security. Dr Gill was appointed by the Swedish government to become the seventh Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), starting in October 2007.
Current activities
- Head of the SIPRI Programme on China and Global Security
- Initiation of the SIPRI Programme on Global Health and Security
Former positions
- Freeman Chair in China Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, DC, 2002-2007
- Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and inaugural Director, Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, Brookings Institution, 1998-2002
- Director, East Asia Nonproliferation Program,
Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute in California and SIPRI - Fei Yiming Chair in Comparative Politics, Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese and American Studies, Nanjing, China
- Dr Gill has lived more than two years in China and Taiwan, and more than seven years in Europe (France, Sweden, Switzerland). He has carried out professional travel to more than 45 countries.
Professional affiliations
- US-China Policy Foundation, Board member
- Feris Foundation of America, Board member
- Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Board member
- Center for Democratic Control of Armed Forces, Board member
- ISIS-Europe, Board member
- China-Merck AIDS Partnership, Board member
- Asia Society Policy Advisory Board member
- Shanghai Institute of International Studies, Advisory Board member
- Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore, Board member
- Journal of Contemporary China, China Security, China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, Hong Kong Journal, Editorial board member
- Council on Foreign Relations, member
International Institute for Strategic Studies, member
Recent publications
- Gill, B. and Huang, C., ‘China’s expanding presence in UN peacekeeping operations and implications for the United States’, eds R. Kamphausen, D. Lai and A. Scobell, Beyond the Strait: PLA Missions Other than Taiwan (Strategic Studies Institute: Washington, DC, 2009)
- Gill, B. and Huang, C., ‘China’s expanding peacekeeping role: its significance and the policy implications’, SIPRI Policy Brief, Feb. 2009
- Michael J. Green and Bates Gill (eds), Asia’s New Multilateralism: Cooperation, Competition and the Search for Community (Columbia University Press: New York, 2009)
- Gill, B., Morrison; J. S., and Huang, C., ‘China–Africa relations: an early, uncertain debate in the United States’, China Returns to Africa: A Rising Power and a Continent Embrace, eds C. Alden, D. Large and R. Soares de Oliveira (Hurst: London, 2008)
- ‘US-China relations’, Bates Gill, in 2009 National Security and Nonproliferation Briefing Book (Peace and Security Initiative: New York, Nov. 2008)
- Rising Star: China's New Security Diplomacy, Bates Gill (Brookings Institution Press: Washington, DC, 2007)
