Rowan Callick

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Rowan Callick is an Australian-British journalist, author and speaker, whose work and interests focus primarily on China and the rest of Asia, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific islands. He is an Industry Fellow at Griffith University’s Asia Institute. He was Beijing-based China Correspondent of The Australian for two terms (2006-2009 and 2016- mid 2018), following 20 years with The Australian Financial Review, including as China Correspondent based in Hong Kong. He was also Asia-Pacific Editor for both newspapers. He has written three books published in both English and Chinese: Comrades & Capitalists: Hong Kong Since the Handover (1998), Channar: A landmark venture in iron ore (2012) and The Party Forever: Inside China’s Modern Communist Elite (2013), published by Palgrave Macmillan. He is a member of the Advisory Boards of the National Foundation for Australia China Relations, La Trobe University’s Asia Institute and the University of Technology Sydney’s Australia China Relations Institute. He has been a member of the advisory councils of Australian foreign and aid ministers.