Peter Harris

Peter Harris is a specialist in aspects of Chinese politics, international relations, history and literature, and an international consultant on civil society. His past positions at Victoria University of Wellington include Director of Asian Studies, Senior Fellow in Strategic Studies, and Acting Director of the New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre. He has been a lecturer at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, and visiting professor at Nanjing University, Nanjing. Since 2000 he has undertaken long-term civil society assignments in Indonesia, Cambodia, Kazakhstan and Myanmar.