Timothy Hildebrandt is an Associate Professor of Social Policy and Development at the London School of Economics. Trained as a political scientist and Sinologist, his mixed methods research on state-society relations in China, social organization development, political behavior, and social policy has been featured in numerous journals including Development and Change, Democratization, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Civil Society, Review of International Studies, Voluntas, among many others; he is also author of Social Organizations and the Authoritarian State in China (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Dr Hildebrandt is co-editor of The China Quarterly, on the editorial board of Global Public Policy and Governance, and on the governing council of the LSE-Fudan Research Centre for Global Public Policy. He regularly appears in international news media, including BBC, CNN, and The Guardian among others.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Political science, social policy, social organisations, social governance