In-house editorial staff
Patrick Tilbury
Senior Editor Asia Pacific
Graduated in PPE, Christ Church, Oxford University. Before joining Oxford Analytica, spent ten years working as a specialist on China and Taiwan, mostly concerned with political and economic developments but also sectoral and social issues and foreign affairs. Lived in China for three years. Previous experience in marketing, education and law.
Nick Jones
Asia Pacific Editor
Degrees in history and politics from Cambridge University (2003) and Birkbeck College, University of London (2007). Prior to joining Oxford Analytica, worked in management consultancy, as a freelance journalist, and provided research assistance on a Chatham House book on the oil industry.
Region Heads
Dr Mark Rebick
Nissan Lecturer in the Japanese Economy and Fellow of St. Antony's College, University of Oxford
Specialist on the economy of Japan. Author of numerous articles on the Japanese labour market and labour institutions. Associate Editor of The Journal of the Japanese and International Economies.
Dr Steve Tsang
Reader in Politics, University of Oxford, Louis Cha Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Asian Studies Centre at St Antony's College, University of Oxford
Specialises in the politics and international relations of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Author and editor of seven books including A Modern History of Hong Kong (2003), The Cold War's Odd Couple: The Unintended Partnership between the Republic of China and the United Kingdom (2003), and Peace and Security Across the Taiwan Strait (2004).
Dr David Washbrook
Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge
Specialises in the modern and contemporary history of India, especially southern India. Has also taught at Harvard and Warwick Universities and at the University of Pennsylvania and has contributed to numerous books and periodicals on South Asia, especially on Indian politics and development. Member of the editorial board of Modern Asian Studies.
Dr Ian Neary
Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford. University Lecturer in the Politics of Japan
Specialist on contemporary Japanese politics. Has published variously on industrial policy and aspects of human rights implementation in East Asia focussing on patients' and children's rights.
Professor Rana Mitter
Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, University of Oxford
Specialist in contemporary Chinese politics and the political and cultural history of twentieth-century China. Recent publications include A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World (Oxford, 2004), for which he was awarded the title Times Higher Young Academic Author of the Year 2005. Professor Mitter regularly broadcasts on BBC radio and History Channel documentaries; his essays and reviews have appeared in the Financial Times, History Today, and the London Review of Books.
Sir Tim Lankester
President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
A development economist specialising in international aid, with particular reference to India and Indonesia. He served at the Treasury, at 10 Downing Street as Private Secretary to Prime Ministers Callaghan and Thatcher, as Britain's representative on the boards of the IMF, World Bank and the European Investment Bank. He has also been Director of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
