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Fellow and Tutor in Politics, Trinity College, University of Oxford
Specialist in the modern history and politics of South-East Asia. Contributor to BBC current affairs programmes, in particular on Indonesia and East Timor. Founder Chairman of The Cambodia Trust, a UK charity, which runs training schools for prosthetist-orthotists (professionals in the prescription and manufacture of artificial limbs and walking aids) and national clinics for the rehabilitation of the physically disabled in Cambodia, Sri Lanka and East Timor. Will open a similar training school and clinic in Indonesia in 2008. Author of The Power of Prophecy: Prince Dipanagara and the End of an Old Order in Java, 1785-1855 ( Leiden & Dordrecht, 2007).
Lecturer in Development Politics, University of Bristol
Specialist in the politics and political economy of the Greater Mekong Sub-region, especially Vietnam. Director and founder of the Bristol-Mekong Project at the University of Bristol. Former Asia-Pacific editor at Oxford Analytica (1992-94). Has a PhD in politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (2001). Author of Changing Political Economy of Vietnam: The Case of Ho Chi Minh City (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003).
Nissan Lecturer in the Japanese Economy and Fellow of St. Antony's College, University of Oxford
Specialist on the economy of Japan. Author of numerous articles on the Japanese labour market and labour institutions. Associate Editor of The Journal of the Japanese and International Economies.
Reader in Politics, University of Oxford, Louis Cha Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Asian Studies Centre at St Antony's College, University of Oxford
Specialises in the politics and international relations of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Author and editor of seven books including A Modern History of Hong Kong (2003), The Cold War's Odd Couple: The Unintended Partnership between the Republic of China and the United Kingdom (2003), and Peace and Security Across the Taiwan Strait (2004).
Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Specialises in the modern and contemporary history of India, especially southern India. Has also taught at Harvard and Warwick Universities and at the University of Pennsylvania and has contributed to numerous books and periodicals on South Asia, especially on Indian politics and development. Member of the editorial board of Modern Asian Studies.
Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford. University Lecturer in the Politics of Japan
Specialist on contemporary Japanese politics. Has published variously on industrial policy and aspects of human rights implementation in East Asia focussing on patients' and children's rights.
University Lecturer in Modern Chinese History and Politics, University of Oxford
Specialist in contemporary Chinese politics and the political and cultural history of twentieth-century China. Recent publications include A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World (Oxford, 2004), for which he was awarded the title Times Higher Young Academic Author of the Year 2005. Dr Mitter regularly broadcasts on BBC radio and History Channel documentaries; his essays and reviews have appeared in the Financial Times, History Today, and the London Review of Books.
