The Great Britain-China Centre has a small team led by the Director, Katie Lee. Project staff have all lived and worked in China and are either native or fluent Mandarin-speakers bringing a wide range of project skills to our exchange programmes with Chinese partners. Their work is supported by members of the
Executive Committee and a wider circle of professional and academic experts both in China and the UK.
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Director - Katie Lee OBE
Katie joined the GBCC as Director in 1995 and has overseen GBCC's growing engagement with rule of law and human rights programmes in China. Prior to GBCC Katie worked at McKenna & Co (law firm) and the Sino-British Trade Council. Katie has an Mst. in International Human Rights Law (Oxford) |
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Deputy Director - Ms Jiang Bing
Jiang Bing is directly responsible for running the Centre's project activities and developing its programme.
Jiang Bing joined GBCC in November 2005 having spent five years as Assistant Director at the British Council in Beijing running the law and governance programme. Prior to that Jiang Bing worked as a prosecutor in the Supreme People's Procuratorate. Jiang Bing has an LLM from Nottingham University and a Bachelor law degree from China Political Science and Law University. |
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Senior Project Manager Human Rights & Communications - Orlando Edwards
Orlando is responsible for the GBCC's Combating Torture programme, publicity and a range of other projects including the Centre's Media and Freedom of Expression work. Orlando is also editor of the China Review.
Orlando joined GBCC in January 2006, having worked for the British Council for the previous five years. For four of those years he was based in Shanghai and Beijing working on projects and the Think UK public diplomacy campaign. Orlando read Chinese at Edinburgh University and has lived in Taiwan and China. |
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Project Manager Judicial exchanges - Ms Zhang Xiaoping
(On maternity leave from June 2009)
Ping runs the Judicial Studies Training scheme and Judicial Management programme. She also covers the GBCC 's other projects in the area of Administrative Law. She is responsible for running the Great Britain China Educational Trust – a charity under the umbrella of the GBCC.
Ping joined the GBCC in April 2000. She has a LLB law degree from SOAS (1997) and passed the Bar Vocational Course from the Inns of Court, School of Law and was called to the Bar at Middle Temple (2004). |
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Project Manager - Perrine Lhuillier
Perrine joined as a Project Manager in September 2008. She is assisting in implementing GBCC’s death penalty programme, and is also managing a project on the improvement of local government public finance management. Formerly Perrine worked in Beijing as a programme coordinator for Children of Ningxia, a charity aiming to improve access to education in Ningxia. She has an MA in Human Rights (Essex University), a BA from SciencePo (Lyons). |
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Operations Manager - Laura Rivkin
Laura joined GBCC in 1990 from the Chinese Section in the British Library. In 1995 she took on responsibility for the Centre's information systems, and the role of Office Manager & HR in January 2006. She has an MA from SOAS in Chinese Art & Archaeology and a professional qualification in Library & Information Sciences from University College London. |
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Finance Manager - Hemant Kanabar
Hemant joined the GBCC in May 2008 and is responsible for the overall financial management of the Great Britain-China Centre, the Great Britain-China Educational Trust, and the UK-China Forum. He has over 20 years experience in the not-for-profit sector including MenCap and Age Concern. He read polymer chemistry at Aston University and has a postgraduate diploma in Business Information Technology from Middlesex University. |
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Project Assistant - Charlotte Zhang (maternity cover)
Charlotte joined the GBCC in June 2009. She supports the project managers in all aspects of the their project development and delivery. She successfully completed an MA at SOAS in International Studies & Diplomacy. She has a BA (2008) from Qingdao University in English Education.
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Vacancies
Vacancies Vacancies Vacancies We normally advertise our vacancies and internship/volunteer opportunities on our website and through our emailed
Events list. Those sending in their CVs on a speculative basis should write to
Orlando.Edwards@gbcc.org.uk.