Mr. Charles Parton
Senior Associate Fellow, The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and Distinguished Fellow, Council on Geostrategy
Mr. Parton has spent over two decades of diplomatic service working on China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Post-retirement, he has also worked as a special advisor on China for the UK Parliament's Foreign Affairs committee. As the First Counsellor of the EU delegation in Beijing, he advised EU and its member countries on the implications of Chinese politics on the interests of these countries. He runs his own advisory company on China - China Ink and is currently associated with several European think tanks like Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), Council On Geostrategy and Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies (RUSI).