Dr. Benjamin Hillman

Biography

Ben Hillman is the Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) and serves as an editor for the China Journal, a leading global source for scholarship and information analysis on China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. His research investigates the political landscape and public policy in China, with a particular emphasis on mechanisms that promote political inclusion and safeguard minority rights. Hillman is the author and editor of eight books, including 'China, Patronage and Power' (Stanford University Press, 2014) and 'Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang' (Columbia University Press, 2016). He has held the position of Honorary Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis and is the Program Director for the Australia New Zealand School of Government's China Reciprocal Program. He chairs the International Consortium of China Studies Centres and coordinates the largest in-country study program for Chinese studies at ANU, funded by the Australian Government's New Colombo Plan. Hillman also founded the CIW China Studies Fellowship program, supported by the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations. His active research topics cover a wide array of areas, contributing to the understanding of governance, political control, and reform in China.

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