Before he came to SIPRI Dr Gill had the position of the Freeman
Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies in Washington, DC. He has previously held positions
at the Brookings Institution, where he was the inaugural Director
of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, and at the
Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute
of International Studies. He is a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies,
and has consulted for a number of multinational corporations
and government agencies. From 1993 to 1997, he initiated and
led the East Asia Arms Control and Security Project at SIPRI.
Dr Gill has a long record of research and publication on international
and regional security issues, particularly regarding arms control,
non-proliferation, strategic nuclear relations, peacekeeping
and military-technical development. In recent years, this research
has broadened to encompass other security-related trends in
the post-cold war world, including multilateral security organizations
and the impact of domestic politics and development on the foreign
and security policies of states. This work has resulted in several
books and more than 120 other publications, which include monographs,
chapters, journal articles, essays, magazine columns and opinion
pieces. His most recent book, published in February 2007, is
entitled Rising Star: China’s New Security Diplomacy (Brookings
Press). Dr Gill will be the first US citizen to hold the SIPRI
Directorship. Dr Gill received his PhD in
Foreign Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government
and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. He has lived
more than two years in China and Taiwan, and more than five
years in Europe (in France, Sweden and Switzerland), and has
carried out research-related travel in more than 40 countries.
Dr Gill speaks, reads and writes Chinese, English and French.
He is married to Dr Sarah Palmer, a virologist.
SIPRI Update, April 2008
