Dr. Jacques is a Senior Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, Cambridge University, and a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is also a non-resident Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington DC. He is the author of the global best-seller When China Rules the World: the End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order. He has previously been a Visiting Professor at Renmin University, the International Centre for Chinese Studies, Aichi University and Ritsumeikan University. He was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He was also until recently a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at IDEAS, a centre for diplomacy and grand strategy at the London School of Economics. He was formerly the editor of the renowned London-based monthly Marxism Today and was co-founder of the think-tank Demos. He has been a columnist for many newspapers, made many television programmes and is a former deputy editor of The Independent newspaper. He took his doctorate while at King’s College, Cambridge.