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 that is ranked No.1 globally for Area Studies and has a Journal Citation Indicator Score of 4.43.
Ben is the author or editor of eight books on China, including Patronage and Power (Stanford University Press, 2014), Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang (with Gray Tuttle, Columbia University Press, 2016), Political and Social Control in China (with Chien-wen Kou, ANU Press, 2024), and The Communist Party of China (with Fengyuan Ji, Cambridge University Press, 2025).
Ben is Honorary Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis, Program Director of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government's China Reciprocal Program, and Chair of the International Consortium of China Studies Centres.