Professor James Laurenceson is Director of the Australia-China Relations Institute at University of Technology Sydney.

He has previously held appointments at the University of Queensland, Shandong University, and Shimonoseki City University. He was President of the Chinese Economics Society of Australia from 2012 to 2014.

His academic research has been published in leading scholarly journals including China Economic Review and China Economic Journal.

James also provides regular commentary on contemporary developments in China’s economy and the Australia-China economic relationship. His opinion pieces have appeared in Australian Financial Review, The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, South China Morning Post, amongst many others.