Contemporary British diplomacy towards Asia;
Social, political and economic developments in China and Japan;
DPRK leadership and policy;
International responses to DPRK WMD and ballistic missile programmes, including sanctions;
Aspects of Northeast Asian twentieth century history.
2021 Tokyo College Ushioda Fellow of the University of Tokyo, affiliated with Tokyo University’s Graduate School of Public Policy
2019 – 2021 Regional security expert and Coordinator of the UN 1874 Panel of Experts on DPRK sanctions
2019 Senior Visiting Research Fellow, King’s College London (the War Studies Department；‘Project Alpha’ )
2015 – 2018 British Ambassador to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
2010 – 2014 British Consul-General in Guangzhou
2007 – 2010 Director of Trade and Investment at the British Embassy in Beijing
2002 – 2006 Counsellor Trade Policy and Director of Inward Investment at the British Embassy in Tokyo
1985 – 2019 British Government Crown Servant
1983 – 1985 Lecturer, Gakushuin University, Tokyo
1981 – 1983 Part time Lecturer WEA, and concurrently academic supervisor, Trinity College, Cambridge University
1983 Trinity College Cambridge, MA, English and American literature
1979 Trinity College Cambridge, BA, English and American literature
Reports
Coordinator of the UN 1874 Panel of Experts for the following reports by the Panel to the UN Security Council:
S/2019/691 30 August 2019
S/2020/151 2 March 2020
S/2020/840 28 August 2020
S/2021/211 4 March 2021
Book
Guangzhou Minutes (mandarin), 2016, Huacheng Press, PRC (Collected articles from New Express, Guangzhou Daily and other Chinese publications)
Articles
‘Sanctions, Communication, and Ambiguity, A Review Essay’, Defence Strategic Communication, Riga: NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence, Volume 12, Spring 2023, pp 85 -100
‘United Kingdom Engagement with North Korea’, Asia Pacific Bulletin, Washington DC: East-West Center, North Korea in the World Special Series, 1 March 2023
‘Multipolarity and North Korea’s New Grand Narrative,’ Oxford Journal St. Antony’s International Review (STAIR, Issue 19.1., Spring, 2024)
