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Bates Gill is the Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) with a long record of research and publication on international and regional security issues, particularly regarding arms control, nonproliferation, peacekeeping, and military-technical development.  Before joining SIPRI, Gill held the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.  He served as a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and Director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.  He has also directed East Asia programs at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute and at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.  Gill serves on the Board of Directors of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.