Steve Tsang is professor of Chinese studies and director of the China Institute at SOAS, University of London. He is also an associate fellow of Chatham House, an emeritus fellow of St Antony’s College at Oxford, and a guest professor at Tongji University in Shanghai.

He regularly contributes to public debates on different aspects of issues related to the politics, history, foreign policy, security and development of the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and East Asia more generally. He has a broad area of research interest and has published extensively, including 18 books, of which the most recent two are “Taiwan’s Impact on China” and “China in the Xi Jinping Era.” He is known in particular for introducing the concept of “consultative Leninism” as an analytical framework to understand the structure and nature of politics in contemporary China.