Ben Hillman is a political scientist, public policy researcher, and advisor, and is the Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW). His research examines (i) policies and mechanisms for promoting political inclusion and safeguarding minority rights, and (ii) politics, public policy and public administration in China. 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), and Political and Social Control in Chiina (ANU Press, 2024). Ben is Editor of The China Journal — the world’s number one-ranked journal in China Studies. From 2018-2021 he served as Director of the Policy and Governance Program at the Crawford School of Public Policy.