Rowan Callick OBE FAIIA is an Industry Fellow of the Asia Institute in Griffith University. He has recently returned from Beijing as The Australian’s former China Correspondent and has held positions including The Australian’s Asia-Pacific Editor and The Australian Financial Review’s China Correspondent. Rowan is currently a member of the National Advisory Council on Aid Policy, of the Australia Indonesia Institute board, of the Foreign Minister’s Foreign Affairs Council, and of the advisory councils of Melbourne University’s Asian Law Centre and of La Trobe University’s China Studies Centre.

Rowan has won two Walkley Awards for his coverage of China and Hong Kong, and the Graham Perkin Award for Australian Journalist of the Year for his coverage of Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. He has written books on Hong Kong (Comrades & Capitalists, UNSW Press, 1998) and on China (Party Time: Who Runs China, and How, Black Inc and Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); and the story of the ground-breaking Channar iron ore mine in the Pilbara, commissioned by the joint venture owners, Sinosteel and Rio Tinto.