John Fitzgerald is Emeritus Professor at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and at Swinburne University,  where he taught in the Asia-Pacific philanthropy studies program from 2013 to 2017. Before that he was China Representative of The Ford Foundation in Beijing, 2008-2013. He served as elected President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities from 2015-2017.  His recent books include Cadre Country:  How China became the Chinese Communist Party (2022) and (ed) Taking the Low Road: China’s Influence in Australian States and Territories (2022). He has a Ph.D. from ANU and held a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a graduate of the University of Sydney.