Bates Gill

Bates Gill ( born May 2, 1959) is an American political scientist and since October 2012 the CEO of the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

Previously, he was from 1 October 2007 to 31 December 2012, the sixth director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI ). He was the first American, who has held this post.

Bates Gill is married to the virologist Sarah Palmer.

Life

His previous posts include the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, as well as the post of Director at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, also in Washington, DC. During the period of from 1993 to 1997 founded and directed Bates Gill already the East Asia Arms Control and Security Project at SIPRI.

His doctorate was obtained Bates Gill in the area of ​​foreign policy at the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at Virginia University.

After a two-year stay in China and Taiwan, as well as a five -year stay in various European countries Bates Gill knows the languages ​​English, Chinese and French.