Biography
Dr William Matthews is Senior Research Fellow for China and the World in the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House. He is an expert in China’s foreign relations, specializing in the geopolitical implications of China as a rising power, including technological competition, China–US and China–Global South relations, and UK China strategy.
He was formerly Director of Geopolitical Research at UK AI company Adarga, and prior to that taught China in comparative perspective at the London School of Economics.
He completed his PhD in Anthropology at University College London, focusing on the relationship between worldviews and reasoning in Chinese popular religion. He studied advanced Mandarin and classical Chinese at Beijing Language and Culture University and holds an undergraduate degree in anthropology from UCL.
William is the author of a book, Cosmic Coherence (Berghahn, 2022), on Chinese belief systems and social theory, as well as numerous research reports and scholarly articles on China.
Past experience
2023-24 | Director of Geopolitical Research, Adarga |
2022-23 | Director of Research, Evenstar Institute |
2018-22 | Fellow in the Anthropology of China, London School of Economics and Political Science |
2015-17 | Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, University College London |
2012-16 | PhD Anthropology, University College London |