BACS COUNCIL MEMBERS

Call for Nominations by 9th August 2010. Please click on the link to find information on nominating new members for election to the Council at the AGM at the Annual Conference in Bristol in September.

President
Tim Wright (2008-) Emeritus Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sheffield. Before that he spent twenty years in Australia, where he was President of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia, 1997-1999. His research is on modern Chinese economic history, where he is working on economic fluctuations in the 1920s and 1930s, and on the political economy of the contemporary Chinese coal industry, on which he has published an analysis of coal mining accidents.

Treasurer (2009-) 
David Pattinson, University of Leeds

Secretary (2005- )
Norman Stockman, University of Aberdeen (emeritus)

Editor, BACS Bulletin (2009-) 
Don Starr, Durham University

Council Members:

• Kate Elders, British Council (2008-)
• Andrea Janku, SOAS (2009-)
• Katharine Carruthers, Specialist Schools Trust (2004- )
• Jing Gu, Institute of Development Studies (2008- )
• Alistair Michie, Auric Digital Ltd, Honorary Associate of the Needham Research Institute at Cambridge, Hon Sec of the 48 Group Club (2008- )
• Natascha Gentz, University of Edinburgh (2009-)
• Jeremy Taylor, Sheffield University (2008- )
• Tao Tao Liu, Universtiy of Oxford (2009-)
• Roel Sterckx, University of Cambridge (co-opted 2008-)

Schools Liaison Officer:

• Katharine Carruthers, SSAT 

China Postgraduate Network Representative:

• Taichang Chen, University of Oxford (non-voting member)

British Chinese Language Teaching Society Representative:

• Huang Dian, University of Westminster

Web Manager:

• Don Starr, Durham University (non-voting member)

Recent Past Presidents:
Professor Stephan Feuchtwang, London School of Economics, 2000-2002
Professor Harriet Evans, University of Westminster, 2002-2005 
Don Starr, University of Durham, 2005-2008