Dr. Bates Gill

Freeman Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Dr. Bates Gill holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A specialist in East Asian foreign policy and politics, Dr. Gill focuses primarily on China's domestic transformation, China's regional diplomacy, and US-China relations.

Bates Gill joined CSIS in early 2002; prior to this, he served as a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. He has also directed East Asia programs at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, and formerly held the Fei Yiming Chair in Comparative Politics at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese and American Studies. A specialist in East Asian foreign policy and politics, his research focuses primarily on Northeast Asian political, security, and military-technical issues, especially with regard to China and U.S.-China relations.