Professor Kerry BrownProfilePublicationsProfileKerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King's College, London. From 2012 to 2015 he was Professor of Chinese Politics and Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia. Prior to this he worked at Chatham House from 2006 to 2012, as Senior Fellow and then Head of the Asia Programme. From 1998 to 2005 he worked at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as First Secretary at the British Embassy in Beijing, and then as Head of the Indonesia, Philippine and East Timor Section. He lived in the Inner Mongolia region of China from 1994 to 1996. He has a Master of Arts from Cambridge University, a Post Graduate Diploma in Mandarin Chinese (Distinction) from Thames Valley University, London, and a PhD in Chinese politics and language from Leeds University. Professor Brown directed the Europe China Research and Advice Network (ECRAN) giving policy advice to the European External Action Service between 2011 and 2014. ResearchPublicationsProfessor Brown’s recent publications include: China’s World: What Does China Want?, I B Tauris, London and New York, 2017, 242pp; ‘The Powers of Xi Jinping’, Asian Affairs, The Journal of the Royal Society of Asian Affairs, Volume XLVIII, Number 1, March 2017, p 17-26; China and the New Maoists, Zed Books, London, 2016; ‘The Chinese Communist Party’s Evolution’ in Czeslaw Tubilewicz, Critical Issues in Contemporary China, Routledge, Oxford, 2017; and CEO China: The Rise of Xi Jinping, I B Tauris, London and New York, 2016, 262 pp; ‘Xi Jinping’s Leadership Style: Master or Servant’, in Asian International Studies Review, Volume 17, Number 2, December 2016, pp 143-159.