Steve Tsang is a Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and Director of both the Taiwan Studies Programme and the Pluscarden Programme for the Study of Global Terrorism and Intelligence. He had previously served as Dean of St Antony’s College and Director of its Asian Studies Centre. He has published widely on different aspects of developments in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. His academic interest goes beyond East Asia and includes the study of intelligence and global terrorism.

He is the author or editor of fifteen books. His most recent are Taiwan and the International Community (ed, 2009), Combating Transnational Terrorism– Searching for a New Paradigm (ed, 2009), Governing Hong Kong (2007), and The Cold War’s Odd Couple– The Unintended Partnership between the Republic of China and the United Kingdom, 1950-1958 (2006). His main current research covers cross-Strait relations, Taiwan’s democracy, Chiang Kai-shek and the nature of the political regime on mainland China.

(Current as of Jan 2011.)