Ben Hillman is Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) and Editor of The China Journal - a cutting-edge source of scholarship, information and analysis about China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Ben's research examines (i) politics, public policy and public administration in China, and (ii) policies and mechanisms for promoting political inclusion and safeguarding minority rights. Ben is the author or editor of eight books on China, including Patronage and Power (Stanford University Press, 2014), Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang (Columbia University Press, 2016), Political and Social Control in China (ANU Press, 2024), and The Communist Party of China (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2026). From 2018-2021 he served as Director of the Policy and Governance Program at the Crawford School of Public Policy.