Rowan Callick OBE FAIIA is an Industry Fellow at Griffith University’s Asia Institute, and an expert associate at the National Security College of the Australian National University. He is vice-chair of the Australia Taiwan Business Council. He was Beijing-based China Correspondent of The Australian for two terms, 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 won a Graham Perkin Award for Australian Journalist of the Year and two Walkley Awards. He has written three books published in both English and Chinese - Comrades & Capitalists: Hong Kong Since the Handover (UNSW Press, 1998); Channar: A landmark venture in iron ore (Hardie Grant, 2012); and Party Time: Who Runs China and How (Black Inc., 2013). He is a member of the Advisory Boards of the National Foundation for Australia China Relations and of La Trobe University’s Asia Institute.